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On September 13, 1993, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin stood on theWhite House lawn and shook hands before the world. For Palestinians, that image carried a larger hope: that atransitional

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Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many Muslim Americans are still perceived in ways shaped by 9/11 and continue to face discrimination, bigotry and suspicion. Muslim

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Last week, on 4th September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. It aims

When I look back on all of my work over the last 30 years, one of the projects I’m most proud of is Meltdown, an audio series I did in

If you follow conservative media and Republican politicians, you could be convinced that any opposition to AI data centers is not due to their sprawling footprint, greed for electricity or

The French statesman François Mitterrand famously confessed that “Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century.” As national independence movements swept across Africa in the 1950s and

In a 2013 Congressional hearing on drone warfare, a young Pakistani boy named Zubair Rehman, aged 13 at the time, talked about the feeling of living under the threat of

Ed Miliband, Britain’s foreign secretary, this week announced plans for a ban on trade and services with Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements, in a move the government has hyped as a

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over

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