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THE ABSENCE OF DRONES IN POPULAR CULTURE
How has one new technology come to be ostracized so thoroughly? Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, are now just as globalized as products like the MacDonald’s quarter pounder or Apple’s
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KİLİS, MİDYAT, ANTAKYA: WHERE HUMANITY IS LAID BARE?
I travelled to Turkey a month or so ago for a wedding, and a friend asked what I would like to do with my few days of free time. My immediate response: let’s go
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DEFINING THE ENEMY: FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO THE WAR ON TERROR
The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 marked the culmination of elected German civilian and military leaders’ evolving plans of discrimination, persecution, and ultimately, systematic killing of the Jews of Europe. Yet the bureaucratic
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JUSTICE FOR ALL, ONE AT A TIME
2013 marks the 50th anniversary of a landmark case in American jurisprudence that upheld the right to counsel in all criminal cases, regardless of the level of offence. Mr. Gideon, charged with breaking and
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MORE THAN RETRIBUTION: WHAT’S AT STAKE IN BANGLADESH’S WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) of Bangladesh formed as part of a political campaign promise by the incumbent Awami League Party to try those accused of committing crimes against humanity and other war crimes
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A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT GUN CONTROL REFORM
This week the Senate concluded hearings on the hot topic of gun control reform, hearing voices from all sides of the debate including former Representative Gabrielle Giffords, a victim of gun violence, as well
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OBAMA’S AMBITIOUS SECOND TERM
The toll of January 1st in America brings a lot more than just New Year’s celebrations. January and early February are chock full of exciting occasions: from Martin Luther King Day to New Orleans’
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INTERVIEW WITH YASEMIN KESEN: THOUGHTS ON LIFE IN AMERICA
Interview with Yasemin Kesen Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program, U.S. Department of State The U.S. Department of State brings about 100 foreign teachers to institutions of higher education in the U.S. each year to
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ALLIANCE RE-SET? WHAT TO EXPECT OF US-TURKISH RELATIONS POST-ELECTIONS
On Tuesday, November 6, Americans will go to the polls to elect their President for the next four years. Faced with a choice between incumbent Democrat Obama and the Republican candidate, former governor of
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LESLIE ESBROOK
Born in Chicago, IL, Leslie Esbrook attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN where she majored in French, European Studies and Economics. During her undergraduate career, she spent a year in France attending Sciences Po
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