February 2015

Matthew Schum
February 25, 2015
This interview with Chilean-born, New York-based artist Alfredo Jaar was conducted over several weeks in 2011-2012. For Jaar, making the...
Ahmed Hezam
February 25, 2015
Last week, President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who became head of state of The Republic of Yemen in 2012 (the result of a one-candidate...
Edward Rackley
February 23, 2015
Urban development in the High Arctic can be a drab affair. Buildings are inelegant steel boxes fit for lunar colonies, clustered against...
Kristofer Petersen-Overton
February 22, 2015
Torture is a violation of the law, both domestic and international. It also happens to be a moral outrage. Leaving aside the legal...
Shelly Kittleson
February 18, 2015
It was the more than one hundred bodies of young men found in the Queiq river nearby in early 2013 that induced former rebel commander Abu...
Deepali Srivastava
February 13, 2015
When the going gets tough, they say, the tough get going. And gone is the tough Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata...
Bhakti Shringarpure
February 13, 2015
Representing an incredible twenty regions in the Caucasus, the online newspaper Caucasian Knot is a small, award-winning initiative with a...
Todd Fredson
February 10, 2015
Adam and I arrived in the city of Mankono the last month of 1421—though we did not actually use the Islamic calendar. For us, it was the...
Mary von Aue
February 8, 2015
On February 1, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the first Eurosceptic upstart party in decades, ended its three-day conference in Bremen...
Khem K. Aryal
February 3, 2015
The Maoist rebels entered Khaireni after dinnertime. The dim filament lights that dangled from veranda roofs turned off one by one as the...