If you were one of the 120,000 people on Facebook who “liked” the first article in Joshua Keating’s Slate series, “If It Happened There”, then you probably found the satire on foreign affairs […]
“There is probably more conflict”, my politics professor likes to say, “between Israelis and Palestinians on College Ave., than there is in the West Bank”. Yet most of the combatants […]
If there’s one thing that leftists of all stripes like, it’s “solidarity”. This is when people from different communities come together for the purpose of defeating a common oppressor, whether […]
I am used to watching ethnic conflict from afar: reading about Tibetan riots in the newspapers, and thinking about policy proposals to address structural inequalities. But when the verdict of “not […]
For better or for worse, an essential part of the news writing craft involves the judicious use of space. In headlines, this compression involves dropping articles, appositives, and adjectives. In […]
The flight of Edward Snowden from the United States has raised some awkward questions for the American establishment. Could the US, which so deftly portrayed itself as a victim of Chinese hacking […]
The recent persecution of atheists in Muslim-majority countries like Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh has prompted some hand-wringing and mild-mannered protests in secularist communities. Nonbelievers, as a rule, just don’t think of themselves […]
Applied Sentience 