World
U.S.-Iranian Conflict: Ramifications in Latin America
A U.S.-Iranian war would prove deeply transformative to the 640 million people south of the Río Grande.
Sex and Myth: Reckoning with Rural China’s Haphazard Sex Education
Sex is a taboo topic in China. People rarely publicly discuss sex; the “birds and the bees” talk from parent to child is also much less common than in the West.
In a Name: North Macedonia and Greece Clash over Historical and Cultural Legacies
To Greeks today, the northern country’s name—even with “North” in front of it—seems a blatant appropriation of their culture.
Resistance Burns at Hong Kong Polytechnic
A fiery standoff at one of the city’s major universities culminated with police storming the barricades early Monday morning.
Half the Sky: #MeToo in China
“#MeToo has become a politically ‘sensitive’ issue in China now, so we cannot study it any more, even in academia. I hope you can also understand that we need to be anonymous in the #MeToo related issues.”