The Zapatista Army: A Feminist Revolution Existing within the Patriarchy
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico’s President from 1988 to 1994, was seated comfortably with close family and friends at a resort in Huatulco, Oaxaca the evenin...
Paratexts and Plurality: Mediation in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
TO THE DIVERSE AND DYNAMIC PEOPLE OF LAGOS, NIGERIA—ANIMALS, PLANT, AND SPIRIT These are the opening words of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and the dedication ...
Adios to Justice: Japanese Peruvians, National Formations, and the Politics of Legal Redress
“I had felt that America was an ideal country that should be taken as a model for the whole world. Why, then, had that country moved to take such unacceptable m...
Translating Awareness into Action: Human Rights Advocate Daniel Sullivan on the Fight to End Genocide in Myanmar
Rohingya refugees walk to board a naval vessel to be relocated to to the island of Bhasan Char, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Az...
Former French President on Trial: Corruption and Alleged Ties to Gaddafi
Jerome Lavrilleux, center, a former cabinet director for the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, arrives at the courtroom Thursday, May 20, 2021 in Paris. Former ...
Japanese Culture and Government: How Culture Influences Politics, Governance, and Priorities
3rd Place, High School Essay Contest 2021 臭い物に蓋 — Put a lid on what smells bad. This Japanese saying reflects the nation’s culture of desiring to melt...
Once Again with the Church and the State: Russian Orthodox Faith in Characterizing Contemporary National Politics
Finalist, High School Essay Contest 2021 “The conversion of Prince Vladimir and the whole of Rus to Orthodoxy were of truly historic significance and played a f...
Upholding French Secularism at the expense of the French Muslim Identity
Finalist, High School Essay Contest 2021 On March 30th, 2021, The French Senate voted in favor of adding an amendment to the “Separatism Bill” that seeks to ban...
Hope In a Whirlwind of Adversity: Rio De Janeiro’s Favelas
1st Place High School Essay Contest 2021 Along the alleys and narrow streets that line Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, the informal settlements whose distinctive red ...
Propaganda in the Age of Post-Truth: The Evolution of Political Deception
“Post-truth” was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. It was meant to put a name to what felt like a new and alarming trend in political di...