Sunday, May 19th, 2013
- After the May 11th Elections, What's in Store for Pakistan?
- The Stateless Rohingya: A Humanitarian Crisis in Burma
- Local Elections, Continental Trends: UKIP's Impressive Showing in British Elections
- Afghanistan’s Opium Industry Flourishes as Foreign Presence Decreases
- A Look Back at the Boston Marathon Bombing Manhunt
Politics
After the May 11th Elections, What's in Store f...
After the May 11, 2013 general election, Mian Mohamed Nawaz Sharif of the centre-right Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) party, acronym PML-(N), is set to become the prime minister of Pakistan. Tuesday&#…
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- Local Elections, Continental Trends: UKIP's Impressive Showing in British Elections
- A Look Back at the Boston Marathon Bombing Manhunt
- Famine: Is the World Used to Somalian Suffering?
- IranPolitik May Day Edition: The Iranian Labour Movement in 2013
- Action-Reaction Politics in Congress Creates Opposition Over SEC Disclosure Regulations
Commerce
Rigging Rates: The banking scandal of Libor and...
The global banking world has drawn severe criticism in recent years for its conscious role in the proliferation of toxic loans – a practice widely considered one of the main causes of the Great Recess…
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Environment
Music Festivals: A Stage for Environmentalism
Recent years have witnessed a growing convergence between the expanding music festival scene and environmental activism surrounding the issues these festivals can give rise to. This development has fo…
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- Gloom for Keystone XL: Is Arkansas Oil Spill a Taste of Things to Come?
- US Forest Service Struggles to Manage Wildfires After Sequestration
- US Experts Say Climate Change is Threat to National Security
- Record Breaking Pollution and Cancer Villages Plague China's Industrial Success
- Fracking, PR, and the Greening of Gas
Health
Questioning the Necessity of GM Labeling
Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the American Medical Association have confirmed that there are no proven negative health consequences associated with consuming genetically modified…
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- Antibiotic Armageddon: Modern Medicine on the Edge of the Abyss
- New Research, Recurring Concerns: The Use of Stem Cells in HIV Treatment
- The Drive to Win: Both Coaches and Players Guilty of Overlooking the Threat of Concussions
- TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major US Airports
- Why Patients Don't Report Medical Errors
Culture
Afghanistan’s Opium Industry Flourishes as Fore...
Afghanistan continues to be the world’s largest producer of opium, constituting about ninety percent of the illegal global supply, despite a poppy blight in 2010 that severely reduced crops. Whi…
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Rights
The Stateless Rohingya: A Humanitarian Crisis i...
A humanitarian crisis in Burma (formally Myanmar) presents a challenge for the international community. While recent democratic reforms in the Southeast Asian nation have led to the lifting of decades…
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- Collapse of Bangladesh Garment Factory a Wake-up Call for Western Retailers
- The Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Is There Still Hope for President Obama?
- The Future of 'Ag Gag' Laws: Activism Versus Industry
- Is There Hope for Women's Rights in Post-Assad Syria?
- Afghanistan’s Declining Human Rights Crisis Further Threatened