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Even in egalitarian Europe, female politicians must battle gender stereotypes, biased media coverage, and entrenched power.
Trump is not science’s biggest problem.
Unless we’re addressing inequalities everywhere, we will achieve equality nowhere.
Bangladesh is a global poster child when it comes to improving women’s status in the developing and the Muslim worlds. But a recent amendment to the country’s marriage law threatens its progress.
The four scenarios in the WEF’s 2017 food report paint a bleak picture. But there are better ways.
Recent events in France have triggered more tensions in the Balkans. But analysis should focus on regional tendencies to lean towards Russia or the US than on catastrophic scenarios.
Syrian refugees have been banned from the US for the next 120 days. Whatever happens next, the country they are fleeing will never be the same again.
This is election year for several African countries and there’s a need to ensure social media isn’t used to incite violence. But can governments be prevented from restricting citizens’ rights?
For Gabonese officers, military interventions like that underway now in the Central African Republic, are also a pathway to politics.
The Moon belongs to all of us. Let’s share in its beauty from afar without splashing around $100 million on a showy space trip.
As Trump’s travel ban hangs in limbo, what does it mean for science?
Russia could undermine the idea of a shared European reality and sway three elections key to the future of the bloc.
Calls for civil resistance against the rise of right-wing populism have emerged. But political activism is more than taking to the streets.
In Nagaland, a northeastern state in India, the push to implement a law giving women more representation in local politics has triggered a violent backlash.
Over the years, Puerto Ricans have in fact been granted three different types of U.S. citizenship, but questions about their rights and equal treatment as citizens still remain.
Providing women with credit improves gender inequality.
Hearing of a murder in an Indian hill station, Kipling discussed the case with Arthur Conan Doyle. Arguably, the case was passed on to Agatha Christie.
By appointing generals to top political posts and hiking defence spending, Donald Trump is imperiling a cherished tenet of the US constitution: civilian control of the military.
As Poland faces more and more social divisions, citizen movements develop through informal activities to reinforce a sense of community and belonging.
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