by Kourosh Ziabari | May 6, 2022 | Politics, Racial Equity & Police Reform
Even without the seemingly endless supply of news reports and academic documentation, the long reach of bigotry and racism in our turbulent times is a given. For many people in our societies, discrimination and prejudice are their lived experience and recurring...
by Grace Tsoi | May 3, 2022 | Journalism, Political Coverage, Politics
The Russia-Ukraine War has been a rallying cause around the world, and Capitol Hill has been unified in calling for tougher measures against Russia. “It is kind of sad that it takes something like this to unite the parties,” Bob Cusack, the editor-in-chief of The...
by Pauliina Grym | May 3, 2022 | Nuclear Policy and Security, Nuclear Threats and Security, Personal Reflections, Politics
For years, I have watched Russia putting up parades more and more pompous celebrating their victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 every May 9. The Victory Day military parade through Red Square has been an almost painfully nationalistic display of power. I wondered, why...
by Meghdeep Bhattacharyya | Apr 29, 2022 | Policy, Politics, Racial Equity & Police Reform, WPI Activities
India has shown a near-constant decline between 2013 and 2019, in various parameters of personal, civil, and economic freedom measured in the Human Freedom Index, and since 2008 it’s had “the biggest drop.” The Index, co-published by the Cato Institute in the United...
by Pauliina Grym | Apr 26, 2022 | Nuclear Policy and Security, Nuclear Threats and Security, Personal Reflections, Politics
During our days in New York City this April, we visited The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Leaving the posh building, I carried their over 200-pages magazine Foreign Affairs in my purse. It had a stunning cover: a globe covered by a hanging Ukraine flag with the...
by Kourosh Ziabari | Apr 26, 2022 | Nuclear Policy and Security, Politics
Nuclear non-proliferation is a cherished ideal that needs to be safeguarded. Against the backdrop of tragedies that have shaken the world security since the first atomic bomb was produced in a uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge in east Tennessee, it appears to...