JENNIFER HELMY – A proposed new ethnic category for individuals of Middle Eastern and North African (“MENA”) descent may be added to the United States Census for the first time in forty years.[1] The White House Office of Management and Budget will make a final decision regarding the form,[2] and Congress would need to approve this […]
ANDREI DAMBULEFF – On the forefront of many American minds today is the threat ISIS may pose to the safety and established freedoms people hold dear. Watching even one of the three presidential debates would have made this pellucid. And despite what one candidate has said about going in and simply stopping ISIS, the reality of […]
CLAUDIA RUIZ – On September 27, 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down an unprecedented sentence of nine years’ imprisonment against Ahmad al Faqi al Mahdi for the destruction of at least nine protected mausoleums and one mosque in Timbuktu, Mali. [1] This is the first instance in which the ICC has prosecuted the […]
ALESSANDRA FERRANTE – When it comes to earths climate, the point of no return might have just been reached.[1] Many scientists are making such grim speculations due to the global concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million (ppm), for the first time in recorded history.[2] Carbon dioxide is […]
