By Michael Aryee It is was during a recent a discussion in finance class, of all places, that I finally thought through a phenomenon that has increasingly troubled me as of late. In our analysis of the World Bank’s decision […]
By Marina Gabriel The New School recently hosted a Center for Public Scholarship event entitled “Syrian Higher Education in Crisis; The Road Forward.” The panel presentation aimed to provide the international community with ways to support Syrian academics and students. […]
At the bottom of the escalator is an only slightly porcine, shortish Taiwanese-American dude in shorts greeting his friends and fans with hugs as they file into the theater for the premiere of season 2 of Fresh Off the Boat with Eddie […]
By Meredith O’Connell As a feminist international affairs graduate student, female empowerment and education equality are the nearest and dearest issues to my heart, so it was fitting that my first visit to the United Nations was for the Day […]
Years before the civil war in El Salvador officially began, government-funded death squads had been killing and disappearing those identified as anti-government dissenters—including clergy, community and union organizers, students and professors—in a conflict that pitted a few elite families allied with […]
Here’s a roundup of (most) of the papers being presented April 23rd at the GPIA Conference at the New School Hirshon suite, 55W.13th Street, 2nd floor 9:30am-6:30 pm
By Jonathan Leonard Our new social initiative, La Selva Guardia, presents the problems caused by the illegal extraction of Peruvian big-leafed mahogany trees. Facts presented are the results of preliminary research conducted for the lauch of our first Amazonian endeavor. We […]
By Rebekah Frank The day after Hurricane Sandy left large swaths of New York and New Jersey decimated, burnt and under water, I took a walk down to the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn to survey the damage. I was […]
In 1993 my parents moved our family of five from Venezuela to the United States. I was only 5 years old. Somewhere along the way, I began the struggle to define my own identity.
Is access to clean water a basic human right? The customary response for most people is yes, of course, but still an estimated 1.4 billion people currently lack access to safe drinking water. And this is just one of the […]
When private-run daily newspapers finally made it to the newsstands in Myanmar last Monday for the first time in 50 years, Myanmar nationals and press freedom advocates had reason to celebrate. Before April 1, state-controlled media in Myanmar had a […]
Ecuador doesn’t often grab international headlines, but questions about its current course have relevance for the Western Hemisphere and beyond. What kind of leader is Rafael Correa? Is he a popular anti-imperial economist who champions 21st century socialism and […]
