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August 30, 2017
There is a history of Muslim women fighting for their rights within Muslim law. Justice Kurian Joseph’s judgment recognises this female interpretative authority, allowing...
August 28, 2017
Is it easier to keep secrets when you have fewer of them? Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan seemed to think so. Twenty years ago, he was chairman of the Commission on...
August 24, 2017
In this piece for Dissent Magazine, Denise Y. Ho—assistant professor of twentieth-century China—writes about the recent imprisonment of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy student...
August 24, 2017
WAMU 88.5 American University Radio based in the Washington, D.C. metro area recaps the events in Charlottesville, VA including an interview with History Professor and...
August 22, 2017
Seventy years ago Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson’s entrance into the big leagues signaled...
August 22, 2017
Professors Ivano Dal Prete and Paola Bertucci gathered on the grounds of the Yale Leitner Family Observatory in New Haven on Monday, August 21st to view the partial solar...
August 18, 2017
“No. 1, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life. No. 2, racism, the least racist person.” So the president said at a news conference in...