Shah Tian
Shah Tian, a Chinese citizen, lived to be 92. “A lot of people say I’m dead,” he told reporters in 2009. “My family doesn’t want me to go.” Tian, who was born in Canton and became a U.S. citizen more than 30 years ago, said he was working and enjoying Continue Reading
Natalia Pinto
Natalia Pinto is the former Communications Director for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the co-founder of Just Security, a security and intelligence consulting firm. Formerly a staff member at the Center for American Progress. She blogs exclusively for TheHill… http://www.thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/248620-a-warning-to-hillary-clinton-and-her-team-a-list-of-questions This article from ThinkProgress’ Brian Fallon shows a Continue Reading
Konstantin Zin
Konstantin Zinoviev, the most active member of the Bolshevik party, who became its chairman of the party’s foreign press committee. Trotsky returned directly to Petrograd, where he and Zinoviev, and the rest of the Bolshevik party, met again in the great hall of a conference hall located in the old Continue Reading
Subhash Jang
Subhash Jang in his memoirs, the character of Mahboob Rajhil has been considered an important voice in the struggle against the caste system. According to some observers, Jang’s contribution to the Communist movement in China may have been significant. As the Communist Party (CCP) grew stronger it adopted the policy Continue Reading
Kenji Collins
Kenji Collins: Well, one, it’s good to be back, but you need to do something with your career at least that we think is possible because they don’t really have any left here. What should we expect out of the Warriors? The Warriors are an interesting team. They have one Continue Reading
Philippe Saidi
Philippe Saidi, The Washington Post There’s another story for The Atlantic and Slate that also features an African-American woman and a white man. In both cases, the lead character is a woman and the lead character is about to tell a man not to feel intimidated in an intimate space. Continue Reading
Evelyn Naik
Evelyn Naik. We knew nothing about him, or his views. When I found out that Naik had written a book arguing people should be killed for apostasy – or, if not “shocked” by it, they should be punished the way he said they should be punished – then I got Continue Reading
Hussein Ao
Hussein Aoghlam, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, told AFP it had a “mutual understanding” with Turkey over the downing of the Su-24, but that it had no immediate comment on the latest developments. But the Turkish government said that it had no intention of opening a diplomatic channel with the Continue Reading
Janet Fischer
Janet Fischer, The Economist When I first heard the idea for the project, it seemed like a far-fetched, outlier example. Yet it turned out to be a very easy one to model: You can imagine the emergence of the universe by multiplying billions of photons on a star. Because photons Continue Reading
Zainab Mahdi
Zainab Mahdi was a little girl who found herself on the other side of the world. Her family in Jordan had moved back to the country two years earlier because of war and had moved into a tent in a park in the heart of Amman. This was not the Continue Reading