The Hong Kong film industry has changed. In its golden age, the region was synonymous with diverse, unique filmmaking and marked the rise of numerous auteurs. But how does Hong Kong film look today after years of shifting markets, competition, ...
If you Google the president of El Salvador, you would be greeted by images of a young man wearing aviators, a bomber jacket and a backwards baseball cap. That man is Nayib Bukele, the so-called “millennial authoritarian” of El Salvador. ...
For those unfamiliar with the great significance Kosovo holds to the Serbian people, it is best summed up by Serbian bishop Amfilohije: “Kosovo [is]our holy city of Jerusalem,” which Serbs cannot relinquish “in this worldly life nor in God’s eternal ...
“Only Koreans are allowed because our employees are not able to communicate in English. It is not racist. Sorry. Please be generous about it,” reads a sign outside a bar in Hongdae—one of Seoul’s most popular neighborhoods for foreigners. Discrimination ...
By nature, sports fans are passionate, and are either obsessively thrilled about something or, more often, enraged by something else—an incompetent coach, an unfair call, even destructive owners. This summer, many soccer fans were on the latter end of the ...
We funded this, and now we will bear the burden of resisting Israel’s violent, apartheid state. Alice Walker, in her poetry book Sent By Earth, reminds us that murder is murder and that it is personal. Regardless of “if it ...
Background of the War In July of 2011, South Sudan became independent from Sudan and to this day, it is one of the youngest countries in Africa. The country has long been characterized by having various ethnic groups, cultures and ...
Our individual core beliefs often serve as guiding principles that define our moral compass, transcending religious or cultural affiliations. Regardless of our backgrounds, certain values should be non-negotiable — values that compel us to break the silence and challenge ignorance, ...
At the end of October, the Bolivian government became one of the first countries to completely sever diplomatic ties with Israel. This shift occurred in response to Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza which began after the Hamas attacks on October ...
One of the most astonishing feats of engineering and construction carried out by the United States took place in the early 20th century a few thousand miles south of its territory in the Central American nation of Panama. Eyeing the ...