Remembering Kafr Qasim
How the 1956 massacre has shaped the Palestinian struggle for civil rights.
Tag: UN
Human Rights Without Humanism
Why does Foucault—an avowed anti-humanist—turn to “rights” in his later works?
Climate Change’s Poisoned Culture
Climate change has joined sex, religion, and politics as an issue not to be discussed in polite conversation.
Closing the Gap in India
How shortages of antiretroviral therapies could jeopardize India’s race to eradicate AIDS.
By Cecilia Van Hollen
Time For A Post-Kyoto Protocol
To spur green development international pacts need to engage with finance and trade. By John Mathews
A City-Sized Prison-House
With Israeli forces besieging Gaza again, Western ambivalence is inexcusable. by LORI ALLEN A fence encircling Gaza, taken in 2005. The no-man’s-land that surrounds the entrance to the Gaza Strip from Israel is a surreal space. Most of the time, it is a hot, flat, …
The Promethean Discrepancy
On apathy and the nuclear threat. Stanford faculty were joined by Governor Jerry Brown to discuss the nuclear menace. Nuclear arms hold an exceptional place in the gamut of weapons technology. Their entrance onto the world stage has consolidated global hierarchies, intensified state rivalries, stymied …
