Chechnya Authorities Reportedly Detained and Tortured 100 Gay Men
Apr 11, 2017 The State Department and rights groups have called for an investigation into the alleged state-sponsored roundup. The Russian republic's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov (pictured, right, with Vladimir Putin), denies the reports.
Syrian Quagmire: Has Russia Accomplished Anything in a Year of Bombing?
Oct 1, 2016 Russian military advisers have been withdrawn, the Syrian Army HQ has no Russian advisory staff and there is little coordination on the battlefield.
Moscow Court Charges Two Men With Boris Nemtsov’s Murder
Mar 9, 2015 On Sunday, nine days after Russian activist Boris Nemtsov was gunned down near the Kremlin, a Moscow court charged two suspects with his murder. The back story about their possible motives and ties is still under examination.
Triumph of the Immigrant American Spirit: Meb Keflezighi and the Boston Marathon
Apr 22, 2014 On Monday, Boston responded with its vigorous spirit of community and transcendence to the cowardly terrorism that marred the marathon in 2013, coming out in record numbers for this year's event.
Fundamentally American Activities
Apr 2, 2014 This is about men doing away with those general laws to which they themselves will need recourse in their day of adversity, how moderation became mistaken for cowardice, extremism for courage, and how words lost their meaning. This is about men doing away with those general laws to which they themselves will need recourse in their day of adversity, how moderation became mistaken for cowardice, extremism for courage, and how words lost their meaning.
Is Putin a Villain for Refusing to ‘Play Ball’ With the West?
Mar 31, 2014 For some reason the Russian president wasn't considered evil during the war in Chechnya; the casual American style came about thanks to college students; meanwhile, Jimmy Carter thinks expanding Medicare would have been better than the Affordable Care Act. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist
May 21, 2013 It's likely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was just another angry young man in our brave new America, a burgeoning dystopia where mass murder suddenly seems like a weekly occurrence.
The History That Birthed the Tsarnaev Boys
May 18, 2013 Chechen scholar Thomas Goltz gives a historical primer on the centuries old culture and struggle that shaped the Tsarnaev brothers, suspects in the bombings of the Boston Marathon.The Culture of Preconception
Apr 25, 2013 The political response to the Boston Marathon bombings suggests that we live in an age of shrink-wrapped, prepackaged opinions. When something new comes along, we hasten to squeeze it into whatever frameworks we were carrying around with us a day, a month or a year before.
Chechnya Expert
Apr 24, 2013
