Month: March 2019

Masrour Barzani, son of Kurdish President Masoud Barzani,repeats call for referendum on seeking Kurdish indpendence from Iraq, February 2016. Alice Martins / Press Association. All rights reserved.KRG’s President Barzani has recently intensified his efforts for independence. There might be many reasons for this. First and foremost, the state of Iraq is often regarded uncontroversially as…

There has been no shortage of breaking news today as former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the U.S. Senate. On Wednesday, The Senate shared Comey’s seven pages of prepared remarks and the collective response was largely a giant shrug. Sure, Trump sounded like the bullying narcissist we’ve come to expect, but none of his…

Amr Nabil/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.In many parts of the Arab world, especially amongst the urban middle class, moderate Islamists have fallen out of favor. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt witnessed a spectacular fall from grace; moving from the presidency to prison cells. In Tunisia, El-Nahda was able to avoid a similar fate, prompted…

The promise of free college education helped propel Bernie Sanders’ 2016 bid for the Democratic nomination to national prominence. It reverberated during the confirmation hearings for Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education and Sanders continues to push the issue. The average graduate in 2016 left college with more than $37,000 in student loan debt. In…

Accompanied by leave campaigner Chris Grayling (background). Home Secretary Theresa May launches her Conservative leadership campaign. Stefan Rousseau / Press Association. All rights reserved.Theresa May says today in her statement announcing a leadership bid that there should be no triggering of the article 50 process until a negotiating strategy has been resolved. That must be…

This year, 39,506 applicants vied to be one the 2,056 students in Harvard’s class of 2021. With a 5.2 percent acceptance rate, the competition was certainly fierce. Those who made the cut would’ve needed to rack up a number of academic and extracurricular achievements, and likely even followed the now-ubiquitous advice to clean up their social media presence, lest a college admissions…

Click:provides a Housing construction is ongoing on the eastern slopes of Pisgat Zeev, in East Jerusalem, January 23,2017.Nir Alon Zuma Press/Press Agency. All right reserved. In recent weeks great attention and debate have followed the approval of the United Nations Security Council (UN SC) Resolution 2334, which reaffirmed with clarity the international illegality of the…

When you’re a fourth-grader, you are completely reliant on your parents for money—which makes it difficult when they don’t give you enough to cover the $2.68 hot lunch at school. What happens next varies by state, but outstanding balances on cafeteria accounts frequently result in some kind of public callout. In some cases, kids are…

Following the passage of controversial proposals on the EURODAC database of asylum applicants' and refugees' fingerprints,Greens/EFA MEPs protest the erosion of asylum seekers' basic rights, 2013. wikicommons/Greensafe. Some rights reserved.The practice of making and granting claims of asylum based on persecution is one of the most concrete expressions of human rights. Yet after more than…

Tell us what you really think. Former President Obama offered up what may be the most realistic assessment of his successor, according to a new report, telling friends, “He’s nothing but a bullshitter.” Obama reportedly made the remark after his first phone call with Trump following the November election. People Magazine reports that after years…