The New York Times recently reported that the United Nations Security Council has decided to pass a resolution that calls for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, with the United States abstaining from the...
Roman Raies, World and Nation Editor
• November 16, 2018
United Kingdom
In a special cabinet meeting, British Prime Minister Theresa May told members of Parliament on Oct. 14 that Britain is significantly closer to going through with Brexit. Just ahead of...
In 1967, Israel built the first settlements in East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the West Bank. In recent years, those settlements are only expanding.
According to the Central Intelligence Agency...
Increasingly, people are questioning the feasibility of the two-state solution between the Israelis and Palestinians.
“Israel has already claimed about 60 percent of the occupied West Bank,” said...
Lately I have been thinking about academic freedom, freedom of speech, and protected speech. Steven Salaita’s case has made me keenly aware of the ways in which protected speech is not so protected...
Steven Salaita’s Twitter posts cost him his job.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offered him a tenured professorship in 2013 but revoked the offer on Aug. 1 before school started this...
Joseph M. Bryan Auditorium was nearly full by 5:50 p.m. Thursday night, Aug. 28as Guilford students, faculty, staff and Greensboro community members gathered to listen to five panelists speak about...
For the better part of a century, two sides have been fighting for land in the Middle East: Palestine and Israel. Recently, the violence between the two escalated for eight days, with airstrikes yielding...
Catherine Schurz, World and Nation Section Editor
• November 16, 2012
Paris, France
The skeleton of a prehistoric woolly mammoth, nicknamed Helmut, was found in the countryside near Paris on Nov. 7. Scientists believe the uncovered bones to be between 50,000 and 200,000...
