The Boeing Starliner, a once promising spacecraft, departed from the International Space Station (ISS) empty-handed, leaving behind its two astronauts, Sunita “Suni” Williams (58) and Barry “Butch” Wilmore (61), at the ISS
On September 16, after the death of the twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, beaten in the custody of the “morality police,” Iran’s Generation Z took to the streets in outrage and defied
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Esther Chávez Cano: The Woman Who Revolutionized the Fight Against Femicide in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
My great-aunt, Esther Chávez Cano, was the first to stand up to the gruesome violence against women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, which is located in the north of Mexico and borders El
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Greece is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of democracy. In fact, many modern governments have drawn inspiration from the democratic system originated by the Ancient Athenians. This system, predicated upon the proposition
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On November 4, 2020 Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ordered a military offensive in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. Despite promises that the conflict would end quickly, the people of Tigray continue
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photo credit: The New York Times Since September, 2014, Yemen has been in an eviscerating civil war. The war, which began between Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi’s government, and the Houthi—a group
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