by Natalie Hilder | Jul 17, 2019 | Articles
The plight of Palestinian refugees was catapulted back into the spotlight last month, after a pair of events brought the issue to the forefront of international attention. While the Trump administration unveiled a new peace plan, the United Nations Relief and Works...
by Natalie Hilder | May 3, 2019 | Articles
While the world watches with bated breath, Venezuelans are taking their country back from the grip of tyranny. Or at least trying to. Just as the people of East Germany and other nations resisted and overthrew the despotic Soviet empire, thousands of Venezuelans have...
by Natalie Hilder | Feb 19, 2019 | Articles
Sentenced to death by hanging for drinking water out of the “wrong” cup while on a hot workday of harvesting berries, the case of Asia Bibi has made global headlines. This Christian woman from Pakistan spent nearly eight years on death row for making this seemingly...
by Natalie Hilder | Jan 11, 2019 | Articles
Believed by many to be a crusade that espouses human rights—particularly Palestinian rights—can the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement provide the solutions it promises, were its demands to be met? BDS claims to be working to better the lives of the...
by Natalie Hilder | Jan 8, 2019 | Articles
In 2002, Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist, won the Nobel Prize for economics when his empirical results challenged the status quo notion that people make economic decisions based on logic. Instead, the research showed that human biases,...
by Natalie Hilder | Dec 5, 2018 | Articles
“20, 000 charming children will all too soon grow up into 20, 000 ugly adults.” That deplorable statement, made by Laura Delano Houghteling (cousin to President Franklin Roosevelt and wife of the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration), was in response to the consideration...
