As Congress continues to debate over the stalemate on the looming crisis of the debt ceiling, one major issue rules above all, budget cuts. While Democrats would prefer to pass…
In recent years, the debate surrounding women’s clothing in Iran has become a highly debated topic. The Iranian government mandates that all women, both citizens and foreign visitors, must wear…
The United States military is on the brink of intervening in Haiti in order to “strengthen [Haiti’s] capacity to counter gangs and reestablish a stable security environment under the rule…
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron pay their respects for a fallen French Resistance fighter. Photo courtesy of The New York Times. One of my new favorite…
In July of this year, Ursula von der Leyen became the first woman nominated to the presidency of the European Commission. On November 1st, she and all her newly-confirmed commissioners were to officially take office and become the new European Commission.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, on the last day of September, a whole country stood in silence. Jacques Chirac was the President of France from 1995 to 2007, and before that served as the Prime Minister of France, the Mayor of Paris, the Minister of the Interior, and in several other prominent political posts.
On January 7, 2015, two men forced their way into the office of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The perpetrators killed 12 people and injured 11. It was…