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The Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, Hebrew for “House of the Sun,” recently witnessed a modern-day reenactment of Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of a bus. Rachel Weinstein, a secular Beit Shemesh resident, earned international recognition after…

A forgotten twenty-first century genocide.  This is how Daowd Salih, founder of the Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy in Sudan, referred to the current situation in Darfur. Since February 2003, Darfur, a western Sudanese region, has suffered intense conflicts…

Since the inception of its protracted European Union bid in 2005, Turkey has scrambled to fulfill the requirements dictated by current E.U. member states, including human rights reform and far-reaching economic legislation. These talks have recently ground to a halt,…

The Antithetical Legacies of Václav Havel and Kim Jong-Il On December 18, 2011, history was provided with an odd coincidence that invites further reflection — the simultaneous deaths of Václav Havel, a dissident playwright, essayist, and poet who became the…

Latin America is a region of unlikely contrasts.  UNICEF data reveal that 29 percent of women in Latin America and the Caribbean are married by age 18, yet Latin America leads the world in number of female presidents and prime…

In our last issue, The Politic spoke with Karam Nachar, a PhD candidate at Princeton University and Syrian activist. This past Friday, Nachar appeared on MSNBC’s national program, Up with Chris Hayes, where he further discussed the situation in Syria. Watch…

The value of a human life is quantifiable: $162 million in annual arms sales, $550 million for combat training jets, $4 billion in defense contracts, and regional geopolitical interests. On February 4, after two days of indiscriminate violence, over 300…

Since World War I, every American president has had to confront the potential agonies, moral uncertainties, and quagmires of military intervention abroad. Certainly, the price of intervention weighs on Barack Obama even as he pulls out troops from Iraq and…