Jessica Rabe ’15 GLOBAL France Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage tend to be the most secular and godless ones, be- cause there are no compelling secular arguments for keeping marriage a heterosexual institution and so even more liberal Christians tend to be the last ones on the bandwagon,” Hanke said. “I do not believe permitting gays and [...]
Jessica Rabe ’15 For the past few weeks, North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong-un, has threatened to initiate a thermonuclear war on South Korea, the U.S. and its allies. Peter Kang ‘14 lived in South Korea until he moved to the Philippines when he was 10, and said these threats happen a lot. “The people [...]
Jessica Rabe ’15 & Mary Heirholzer ’16 The conclave, comprised of 115 Roman Catholic cardinals, recently chose Jorge Mario Bergoglio, former archbishop of Buenos Aires, as the 266th pontiff of the Catholic Church. In addition to being the first Jesuit pope, he is also the first pontiff not from Europe in 1,200 years [...]
Jessica Rabe ’15 Partisan divides once again trump the ability of Congress to come to a resolution, $85 billion in mandatory, across-the-board cuts, known as the sequester, went into effect on March 1. The sequester was a byproduct of the debt ceiling debate in August of 2011, as proposed by the White House. Republicans refused [...]
Jessica Rabe ’15 Pope Benedict XVI is set to resign from his eight-year papacy on Feb. 28, citing his 85 years of age as increasingly taking their toll. He said that he no longer has the strength that the duties of the papacy demand, such as extensive traveling. The announcement came as a shock, as [...]
Jessica Rabe ’15 A group of militants from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), whose goal is to overthrow the Algerian government and establish an Islamic state, undertook a deadly four-day siege on Jan. 16. The siege took place at the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria, located in North Africa. The attack was [...]
By Jessica Rabe ’15 Cairo – Tahrir Square appears as it did two years ago, when hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in support of democracy and successfully toppled former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Similarly charged protests have materialized in light of President Mohammed Morsi’s edicts granting him an expansion of power, evoking chants from [...]
By Jessica Rabe ’15 Greek lawmakers recently passed an austerity package that was narrowly approved among a fractured three-party governing coalition, as thousands violently protested outside the parliament in Syntagma Square. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras deemed the deal necessary to secure Greece’s posture in the Eurozone and assured the measures would be the last. The [...]
By Jessica Rabe ’15 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently called for the drawing of a “red line” at the United Nations by other countries, including the U.S., that limits Tehran’s nuclear fuel production to enrich uranium. The crossing of the “red line” would result in military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. Netanyahu has threatened [...]
By Jessica Rabe ’15 A series of anti-American protests, ignited on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 have swept the Middle Eastern world targeting mostly American embassies. The walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo were scaled and the U.S. flag was replaced with a black Islamist banner. The U.S. consulate in Benghazi was burned and [...]