“Behind the scenes a small and powerful group of elites within the political parties is secretly in charge, and they are responsible for the misguided development of past decades,” the manifesto for the emerging German political party called Alternative für Deutschland warns…
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Read MoreSince the election of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in April of 2018, Ethiopia has been transformed by a series of energetically executed democratic reforms…
Read MoreIn early October, a group of 120 migrants set out for the United States from Honduras. Within two weeks, the caravan grew to over 7,000 people due to massive press and social media attention…
Read MorePakistan seemed well on its way to establishing successful social and political reforms in the past two years when it came face to face with one of its long standing adversary…
Read More#MeToo. The hashtag that took social media by storm this past year, and the words that gave thousands of survivors all across the United States, the strength and solidarity to come forward…
Read MoreUyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located in northwest China, live in a real-life Orwellian police state. Throughout the Xinjiang Region are security checkpoints where residents must scan identification cards…
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