Women and children among Syrian refugees striking at the platform of Budapest Keleti railway station. Mstyslav Chernov/Wikimedia Commons, 2015; goo.gl/m7Vl5N. CC0 3.0
On February 13 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, died in Malaysia. Kim was apparently poisoned with a…
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The Key to Defeating ISIS: Ending Sunni Disenfranchisement
Since the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) formed in 2013, the United States has led a frontline fight alongside its allies to…
2016 was a productive year for the populist far-right. With Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and Donald Trump’s victory in the…
As of December 2016, just six months after President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office, the war on drugs in the Philippines claimed 5,882 lives–fewer than…
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Trump Administration Threatens the Future of Global Female Contraceptive Use
Technology and medicine have pushed the boundaries of innovation since the beginning of the 21st century, but women’s reproductive health remains one of the…
The 2016 presidential election will no doubt remain a controversial subject in the coming years. Many feminists, excited at the prospect of America’s first…
