Putting Caste on Notice Putting Caste on Notice
Navi Pillay is the first UN human rights commissioner to take on caste discrimination.
Oct 26, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
The Best Wall of Defense The Best Wall of Defense
The most dependable guarantor of Pakistani stability isn't a troop buildup in Afghanistan; it's Pakistan's emerging middle class.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Mosharraf Zaidi
Paranoia Over Pakistan Paranoia Over Pakistan
Is Pakistan really in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban?
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Manan Ahmed
The Ethnic Split The Ethnic Split
The tenacity of the Taliban insurgency is rooted in opposition to a foreign occupation that is particularly distasteful to the Pashtuns.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Selig S. Harrison
A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand
For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Remember the Women? Remember the Women?
Women belong at the center of the debate over the Afghan war, not on the margins.
Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo? Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo?
More than 5 million have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and violence against women is so common that it's been called femicide-genocide. What can we here in the U...
Oct 21, 2009 / GRITtv
Children of the Occupation Children of the Occupation
Hundreds of Palestinian children are imprisoned in Israeli jails every year. Their story, overlooked in recent media reports, tells the true cost of the occupation.
Oct 15, 2009 / Feature / Andrea D’Cruz
Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran
Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Helena Cobban
American Jews Rethink Israel American Jews Rethink Israel
The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss