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Even attending university in the 1960s was a revolutionary and complicated process for Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed by polio in his early teens. Now known as the father of the independent living movement, Roberts—faced with many structural hurdles to moving through society—began pushing as a young man to win disabled people the resources to […]
“The problem is the export license, huh? For this we can find a…a way.” It was early June and Guenther Rudolph was in an expansive mood. Sharp-suited, relaxed, and charming, he was standing in a booth in Prague’s Clarion Congress Hotel. Every year the Clarion hosts an exclusive gathering: the premier get-together of the surveillance […]
Currently, just four of Nigeria’s 109 senators and 16 members of its 360-seat lower house are female.
An estimated one in three children worldwide have blood lead levels as high as those found during Flint, Michigan’s 2014 water crisis.
“My message to the people of Gaza: Do not lose hope, do not despair,” a freed Palestinian prisoner said.
Read an excerpt from Gaza journalist Plestia Alaqad’s powerful new memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience.’