As a Canadian grad student interested in Central American integration, I moved to Guatemala for a few months to work on my Masters thesis. I had been studying Guatemalan policy, mining laws and economic issues in Guatemala for ...
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...
Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride is this month’s must-see in London’s West End, and its timely revival is far from incidental. Jamie Lloyd’s brilliant young cast will not only leave you feeling entertained and intellectu...
Samantha Lewthwaite has been a prominent feature of mainstream news since the attacks on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi this September. However, when her name is entered into a Google search, the foremost entry is a li...
The whole world is consuming more calories than it did forty years ago. The world population is growing at a rate of 200,000 people a day. These people must be fed. How can this be done? Food producers argue that, in order to f...
The law is supposed to dispense justice, both for the accused and for their victims. But in a flawed world with legal loopholes and “ordinary” criminals, we must confront the possibility that horror can become reali...