Border Crossings

A while back I had the privilege of meeting Patricio, an immigrant worker from Ecuador. He worked at a pizzeria in Sunset Park, a largely Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn.

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Invocation of the “Ceased Circumstances Cessation Clause”: Is Rwanda Fundamentally Altered Enough?

After listening to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his recent swing though the United States I can only assume that Bibi just doesn't realize it's 2011.  How else to explain his repeated comments, including his

A review of 'Artists in Exile: Forgotten Iraqi Refugees in Syria,' an exhibition of 27 Iraqi refugee painters.

What is a state?  In diplomatic circles, it is a deceptively simple question – at what point and under what circumstances does an area become its own country?  In the modern world, it is a question without a simple answer, yet it is one that the global community will likely have to grapple with i

At a recent EU summit in Brussels, the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke with other officials about the implementation of the European volunteer service or, the “Eur

Straight from the annals of the wildly absurd, we have this lovely tale of a American student named Lily Sussman who had her laptop shot – not once, not twice, but three times – by Israeli Bor

This week, I've been pondering over the reported breakthrough in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. There have been many moments in this sixty year-old conflict that seemed like they would climax in a denouement, but something would always fall apart in the last minute. The latest developments