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Many people these days talk about vulnerability: children, the elderly, and those who are poor are all described as vulnerable. During the pandemic, protecting the vulnerable became the guiding...
American politics is characterized by extreme partisanship and government stalemate. The two dominant political parties marshal reliably partisan interest groups with the objective of controlling both...
A trip to the theatre, these days, often involves additional purchase. Theatre merchandise (‘merch’) is sold in a related shop or kiosk, so that attending a performance might involve also buying a...
When we hear that the United States is facing a health care provider shortage, the most common response is: We need more doctors. It sounds intuitive. When it seems like we don’t have...
On December 3, 2024, then–President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea stunned the world by declaring martial law out of the blue. In a televised address, he emphasized the inevitability of martial law by...
From The United Arab Republic, 1963 (Cairo: Information Department) When I started researching the Egyptian Ministry of Culture (formerly National Guidance), I wondered why the government would...
In recent years, few issues have been as socially and politically fraught and divisive as the question of whether transgender girls should be permitted to participate in girls’ sports. In the United...
When we think about prejudice, we think about people. People who are prejudiced against us; people whom we may be prejudiced against (whether we admit it or not). Yet not all prejudice is directed...
Amid all the changes that have taken place since countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America became independent in the 1960s/1970s, a stark reality has persisted: very few of those newly independent countries...
The United Nations Climate Conference (COP 31) will convene in Antalya, Turkey. Muslim-majority countries have hosted two recent COPs in Sharm el-Sheikh and Dubai and are now set to host in Antalya. That...
Human beings think, speak, and write in metaphors. Those metaphors change as cultures do; people use them to respond to and reshape the world. Indeed, neuroscientists and literary scholars alike have...
Each time our small ship met a big wave, a few plates and glasses crashed to the deck. We were in a storm on the North Atlantic Ocean, on a voyage from the United States to Europe. You need not fear...
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