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  • For the Sake of Jingoism

    BY ARI SPITZER Amidst photos friends had posted, and articles about the FIFA World Cup that populated my newsfeed, a headline appeared: “Search for Israeli Teenagers Ends in Tragedy.” Slowly but surely with each refresh, the headline and others like it pervaded my social networks. Three yeshiva students in Israel, Gilad Sha’ar, 16, Eyal Yifrah,…

  • Blood on Their Doorposts

    BY GABE RUBIN Despite recent investor bullishness and cocky parliamentary speeches from Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Spain remains mired in a profound economic crisis that has hurled its citi­zens into dire straits. While the overall unemployment rate stands at the American Great Depression level of 25 percent, youth unemploy­ment, at over 50 percent, threatens to…

  • Borders, Danger, and Human Rights: Israel’s Dynamic Role in Tumultuous Times

    BY MEYTAL CHERNOFF The past few years have seen large-scale changes in the Middle East. In particular, escalated violence in Syria has forced the world’s eyes to­ward the region and raised the issues of alliances, human rights, and the poten­tial for the conflict to spread beyond Syrian borders. The state of Israel sits in the…

  • The Refugee Crisis We Prefer to Change

    BY SOPHIE TARAZI When I first announced that I would be studying abroad in Amman, Jordan, the two questions I was most frequently asked were whether Jordan was safe for Americans and if all the women wore hijabs. Though I wish people wanted to know more about the Bedouin and baklava, I understand why these…

  • A Sputnik for the 21st Century

    BY NELSON GOMES On March 18th, the Chinese government announced its inten­tions to accelerate production of the world’s first commer­cially viable liquid fluoride reactor. The project, spearheaded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was originally allocated a bud­get of $350 million and scheduled for completion by 2039, but it has since seen its funding grow…

  • Parsing “Apartheid”

    The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a Washington behemoth famous and notorious for its clout on Capitol Hill, prefers to work behind the scenes. Sure, once a year they throw a giant party in the Washington Convention Center that over half of Congress regularly attends along with a press contingent worthy of the Olympics. But…

  • The New Face of Somalia

    BY AARON CHRISTENSEN Political maps do not reflect the world as it really is but rather the cartographer’s idealized world. This is particularly evident when looking at a map of Somalia, nominally an independent state with static borders since 1960. In reality, Somalia does not exist as a singular political entity, and it has topped…