Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments for King v. Burwell, the second major legal challenge in four years to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Regardless of what the justices decide on the case, the Supreme Court’s re-examination ...
Over the last few months, thanks to the Supreme Court declining to take up the marriage equality petitions before it in October, a tidal wave of judicial decisions in favor of marriage equality has swept across the nation’s courts, expanding the number of states where same-sex marriage is legal to ...
I was sitting in Wilson Café last Wednesday, preparing for a job interview with a friend, when my phone buzzed with a New York Times Breaking News update. “Gunfire Reported in Canada’s Parliament,” it read. It was a headline that no Canadian thought they would ever see. In disbelief, I opened ...
A series of eight tiny, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea has been the source of rising political tensions between China and Japan in recent months. Known to the Chinese as Diaoyu and the Japanese as Senkaku, the islands have been administratively controlled by Japan since the late 19th century, ...
The German newsmagazine Focus has reported that the art collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, an 80-year old German man whose collection of 1406 artworks was seized by German authorities in his Munich apartment in Feb. 2012, was found to include several previously unknown works by famous artists including ...
Last Friday, Super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall, cut a path of destruction through the archipelagic nation of the Philippines. With sustained winds of 195 miles per hour, Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Yolanda, first slammed into Guiuan, a city of 50,000 ...
Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto, the largest city in Canada and fourth-largest in North America, found himself fighting for his political life last week after the Toronto Police recovered a video that allegedly showed the mayor smoking crack cocaine. Ford was elected mayor of Toronto in October 2010 on a ...
The firestorm of controversy set off by Edward Snowden several months ago over the surveillance operations of the National Security Agency (NSA) re-erupted last week when media sources in Germany and France reported intrusive NSA surveillance against America’s closest European allies. Le Monde, a ...
As per annual tradition, various Swedish and Norwegian academies and committees awarded the Nobel Prizes last week in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics. The first category of prizes to be awarded was Medicine. Last Monday, the Karolinska Institute bestowed ...
While Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in August shocked the world and provoked outrage of various degrees from Western powers, an overlooked consequence of the 30-month long civil war has been the refugee crisis that has spilled over into Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and ...