| Dec 11, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyNelson Mandela’s heroic struggle for a free, non-racial, and democratic South Africa inspired freedom-loving people around the world but was especially intertwined with the spirit of our nation’s Civil Rights movement. African Americans felt a special...
| | Rights / DemocracyWorld Bank economist Branko Milanovic does serious work. His explorations into global income distribution have won him a wide — and appreciative — audience in scholarly and policy-making circles the world over. But Milanovic isn’t always crunching data and...
| | Environment / HealthSanta’s changing some policies at the North Pole. You see, he’s concerned about global warming. If the polar ice caps melt, his workshop will sink into the Arctic Ocean. He’d become a climate refugee. What’s more, our changing climate is...
| | Peace / SecurityIn the standard spy thriller, our hero gets captured by agents of a repressive government. They take him into a dark interrogation room, where the sadistic spymaster hisses: “We have ways of making you talk.” In real life, the director of our National...
| | Rights / DemocracyDuring his recent bar mitzvah ceremony, Duncan McAlpine Sennett had to chant a biblical passage in Hebrew and deliver a short sermon in English putting that text into perspective. The Portland, Oregon 13-year-old had an unusual challenge with this routine part of the...
