Hip hop has historically been an arena of society known for fostering competition. The past two decades have seen rap “beefs”—from Biggie and 2Pac to Jay-Z and Nas to 50 Cent and, well, almost everybody—grow and fester, fueled by shots fired within songs and inflammatory actions of one form or another outside of them. In … Read more
Hip hop has historically been an arena of society known for fostering competition. The past two decades have seen rap “beefs”—from Biggie and 2Pac to Jay-Z and Nas to 50 Cent and, well, almost everybody—grow and fester, fueled by shots fired within songs and inflammatory actions of one form or another outside of them. In … Read more
In late June this year, after announcing the US troop drawdown plan, President Obama described what success in Afghanistan looks like: Afghanistan able to independently provide security and al Qaeda unable to launch attacks on the US, its allies, or its overseas interests. Essentially, what Obama wants is a more or less stable country, no … Read more
Brazil, Sierra Leone, Kyrgyzstan, and Costa Rica do not have much in common beyond their female presidents. In the last decade, female representation in parliament and executive cabinet positions has almost doubled. Yet advances around the world are extremely varied. Rwanda, where quotas guarantee women 30 percent of seats in parliament, tops the charts with … Read more
Educating females is a profitable investment that generates high economic returns. An educated woman will be three times less likely to contract HIV/AIDS than her uneducated sister, and her income will be 25% higher. Moreover, Rebecca Winthrop, Director of the Center for Universal Education, told the HPR, “Every 1 percent increase in women’s education generates … Read more
Beatrice Walton of the Harvard Political Review recounts in a recent post her personal travels through Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Through Walton’s vivid descriptions of the ongoing rebuilding process and the scars of a violent history in the region, she makes the case Bosnia & Herzegovina deserve more attention if only for what BiH can … Read more
We take an impossibly long bus ride into Herzegovina. I watch out the window as we pass by clusters of partially completed houses dotting the impressive, mountainous landscape. There are gardens; wild plums, rows upon rows of cabbage plants, and pomegranate trees overfill front yards. Beautiful white marble Muslim cemeteries lay nestled below steep crags. … Read more
We take an impossibly long bus ride into Herzegovina. I watch out the window as we pass by clusters of partially completed houses dotting the impressive, mountainous landscape. There are gardens; wild plums, rows upon rows of cabbage plants, and pomegranate trees overfill front yards. Beautiful white marble Muslim cemeteries lay nestled below steep crags. … Read more
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill Ten weeks have come and gone in the blink of an eye and here I am, putting a neat little bow on the tidy story I have composed … Read more
No matter how much the business of education may be apotheosized it is just that, a business. Education, like any other business, cannot be so sacrosanct to be beyond reform. Yet the grandiloquence surrounding the reform debate, might lead one to believe education is necessarily immune to criticism. To take education of its pedagogical pedestal, … Read more