Obama wanted to calm the waters in the Middle East, then shift the burden of policing it to America’s partners there
How will Trump’s Withdrawal from Syria Affect the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict?
Territorial control is as the heart of Turkish-Kurdish negotiations
A New Space Race? China First to Land on Far Side of Moon
The probe, Chang’e 4, is symbolic of the growth of the Chinese space program and the capabilities it has amassed
Can Online anti-Muslim Hate Speech be Combated? There’s an App for that
By Bertie Vidgen and Taha Yasseri | – In a landmark move, a group of MPs recently published a working definition of the term Islamophobia. They defined it as “rooted in racism”, and as “a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”. In our latest working paper, we wanted to better […]
Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide
Hitler “ordered all action speeded up.”
Facebook’s ‘Virtual Coercive’ Implicated in Rohingya Genocide
Is access to Facebook a pillar of free speech if the platform can be harnessed for the purpose of eliminating an entire population?
America’s Generation Gap: Aging White People v. Diverse Millennials
Rising “racial generation gap” between white people over 65 and young people of color.
What Trump Ousting of SecDef Mattis Means for Russia, Syria & Afghanistan
By Scott Lucas | – The last adult in the Trump White House playground has gone – and the president is throwing his toys around. James Mattis, as defence secretary, was one of three retired generals in the Trump administration whose hope was to contain an ill-informed, temperamental, and unpredictable president. Now they’re all gone: […]
The Fossil Fuel Era is Coming to an End, but the Lawsuits are Just Beginning
Efforts to phase out fossil fuels will have to ramp up considerably — and quickly
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