When you’re posting something for your friends to see on Instagram or researching background information for an assignment on Google, increasingly prominent economists and activists believe you are participating in colonialism. In the 17th, 18th, ...
Source: Xavier Galiana/AFP via Getty Images It started with a tweet. “A three day ultimatum to the police,” wrote Kapil Mishra, an Indian politician allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi – to clear the roads ...
Photo via Michael Reynolds/ Shutterstock Trump’s Middle East Plan: Trump unveiled a new plan in response to tensions in the Middle East between Palestine and Israel. The plan has largely been rejected by the Palestinian ...
Photo: CDC on Unsplash If you’ve been reading the news the past few weeks, you’re probably aware of how the recent outbreak of a strain of the coronavirus has led to an increase in racism ...
Photo: Hassan Ammar/AP I often find myself plagued with the same moral dilemma. I want to visit Saudi Arabia–visit my family, make a pilgrimage to Mecca, familiarize myself with the breathtaking scenery. But while I ...
It’s in headlines, on social media, and is a normal word in everyday conversations. But have you seriously ever thought about the word “problematic” as the opposite of consciousness towards representation and identity, in its ...
The prevalence of various messaging apps all over the world only struck me when I went abroad for the first time. While meeting new people at hostels around Western Europe, I very quickly learned that ...
Illustration Credit: Eva Dinino Written by Mariana Bedon On September 30th, Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra dissolved Congress. It is the second time in Peru’s history that Congress has been dissolved. The last time this happened ...
Illustration Credit: Phuong Huynh The Nobel Prizes 2019 were announced again this fall with a total of 14 laureates. Immediately, the Swedish academy awards were caught up in a controversy involving Peter Handke’s Nobel Prize ...
Image Source: Felipe Werneck/AP/Shutterstock In August of 2019, the Amazon Rainforest fires burned on the pages of almost every news source around the world. The world watched in panic as the world’s last mega-forest was ...
Image Source: asia.nikkei.com With crimson garments and gold-framed dark turquoise curtains providing an impressive backdrop, the new emperor of Japan, Naruhito, was officially enthroned on Tuesday with all of the ceremony that might be expected ...
Image Source: Cole Burston/Bloomberg/Getty Images Canada’s 2015 federal election resulted in a Liberal majority government led by progressive Justin Trudeau. Throughout his political career leading up to September of 2019, Trudeau in the position of ...
Puerto Ricans celebrate at the Puerto Rican Pride Parade in NYC. Image source: Medium “We have not given justice to the Spanish Pioneers…simply because we have been misled,” wrote Native American activist Charles Lummis in ...
Illustration Credit: Margot Whipps Written by G. Neely and K. Messerman In recent decades, countries around the world have begun to require that their populations learn English and with good reason. In 2013, the United ...
Photo Credit: UTV On Thursday, March 14th, hundreds of people marched to the city centre of Derry, Northern Ireland, carrying a banner that read “Toward Justice”, and pictures of loved ones. The crowd paused to ...
Image: BBC.com On April 10, 2019, the EU and the UK government both agreed on impending the deadline of Brexit, and they are going to make the final decision on October 31, 2019. The tension ...
Painting “The Arrival of Cortes at Veracruz and the Reception by Moctezuma’s Ambassadors”, Library of Congress. 2019 marks the 500-year anniversary of the arrival of the Spaniards to modern Mexican territory, and the observance of ...
Illustration: Eva Dinino There’s a lot at stake for the country’s more than 800 million registered voters. With 29 states, 7 smaller union territories and more than 1.3 billion people who speak 22 official languages ...
Today, there is a thriving cottage industry of Jewish heritage tourism in Poland, with dozens of different organizations based in Poland, Israel, and the U.S. among others offering tailored personal and group tours to the ...
