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,...

“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...

The axiom that war always brings some tragedy in its wake is undeniable.  To suggest otherwise would be naïve romanticism at best, and at worst, murderous.  While one can justify acting in self-defence, it cannot be denied that one of the most terrible...

As the geopolitical tectonic plates of the Middle East continue to shift and collide, Kurdistan remains an island in a sea of chaos.  In stark contrast to its neighbours, Kurdistan’s staunch commitment to defending freedom and rejecting extremism is evident as...