In most presidential elections, predicting the winner of the heavily-Mormon state of Utah is a non-exercise. Democrats have won the state exactly once since 1952, in Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 landslide […]
Over the past three decades, more than 205,000 women have left Ireland to procure abortion services. This mass exodus could finally change following the announcement of a referendum to repeal […]
As nations emerge from beneath the fold of colonial empires, they are faced with the task of differentiating themselves from their former sovereigns, yet while colonial nations had the luxury […]
Mary Seacole was in London in 1854 when she heard about a shortage of nurses on the frontlines of the Crimean War. The Jamaican nurse offered her services but was […]
“What people believe prevails over the truth” – Sophocles, The Sons of Aleus Among the societal preoccupations and political wedge issues that have pervaded American culture, none is perhaps […]
For years, many of the most disputed debates within the international world have included water. Many people have even questioned whether the next world war will be […]
To us Americans, it may seem a fantastic idea to govern a country explicitly based on ethnic distinctions, but the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina may show us precisely why that might be a good idea.