We’ve all moaned about getting up for school in the morning and faked stomach aches to get out of classes. What could be fun about being tested on things that just don’t matter to you or exposed for your lack of kno...
In December 2010 the Arab Spring began spreading across North Africa and Middle East. The autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have been overthrown. In Syria the civil uprising began in January 2011 when police assaulte...
In another genius move, the mysterious street artist, Banksy, has shifted the world’s attention back to the destruction caused in Gaza during the summer months of 2014. The Israeli Army’s Operation Protective Edge l...
Every day people climb dangerously deep into the ground to support themselves as coal miners. The film Coal Boy tells the story of a boy in the Jaintia Hills in northeast India who was born into this fate. Most people can never...
In his latest documentary, God Loves Uganda, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda’s terrifying turn towards biblical law and the prop...
With the ongoing US drone campaigns in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, it seems like many people have specifically labeled drones agents of wanton death and destruction. The more informed individual might label drones as tools of...
From upgrades in jail cells to companies that stand in the queue for you: there is nothing money cannot buy. Following this statement, Michael Sandel gives a possible explanation for the loss of social values and civic particip...
The National Film board of Canada has collaborated with the The New York Times Archive Department to create four interactive short films about the history of the highrise and modern living. These great feats of engineering have...
For her lifetime dedication to providing safety and healthcare to 90,000+ internally displaced persons at her camp in Somalia, Dr. Hawa Abdi was honored with the 2013 Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards’ Fern Holland Aw...