ANDRES ESTRELLA – On September 9, 2016, just two days before the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States House of Representatives, with little debate, passed a bill that would allow victims of the attacks, and their families, to sue Saudi Arabia.[1] President Obama vetoed the bill, titled Justice Against Sponsors of […]
CONRAD C. WITTE – On October 1, 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presided over the opening of the Turkish parliament[1] and declared that Turkey had reached the “end of the game” with its bid for European Union membership. President Erdogan announced that it was time for Brussels to finally make it clear if the […]
EMMA HOLLOWELL—The biomedical community was rocked on November 18, 2015 when the National Institute of Health (NIH) announced its decision to retire all of its chimpanzees and permanently end testing on the primates. Citing its June 2013 decision to greatly reduce the stock of chimpanzees used for testing , followed by the US Fish and […]
KRISTEN BARROS – On Wednesday, September 21, 2016, the United States put an end to decades worth of sanctions when they gave the “okay” to the direct sale of planes to Iran. American citizens will now be moving to Tehran, Iran. This will be the first time since the Islamism Revolution and the 1979 and […]
