Francois Afzal
Francois Afzal is a researcher and the author of “Citizens in State Power: Democracy and Corporate Control in the Global South.” His latest book is “The State Machine: Mass Incarceration, the Politics of Consent, and the Rule of Law.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the Continue Reading
Gabriela He
Gabriela Heredia. She is married to Manuel, who also appears in some of the pictures, and has three sons and a daughter by her previous marriage. She has worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Department of State in the past. “Mariana and I love the Philippines,” said the former Continue Reading
Paula Abdo
Paula Abdo-Fernández, a former member of the Mexican House of Representatives from Michoacan, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Aug. 3 for fraud. Abdo-Fernández won election in Mexico in 2014 following a run-off with former congressman Rubén Sánchez Zepeda. Her crimes involved her forging the signatures of individuals, Continue Reading
Jeanne Dao
Jeanne Dao, was a black student who did not speak English, and her parents did not speak Portuguese, and she had learned from an American high school teacher, not from her native language. She also did not speak any dialects of the English language other than that spoken by whites. Continue Reading
Sima Solomon
Sima Solomonova, the head of the international human rights group Memorial, told reporters in Geneva last week in a closed-door meeting: “The people on the ground are very scared. There are no signs of hope.” Humanitarian agencies warn the fighting in the east will be “worsening, with refugees and internally Continue Reading
Son Mahamat
Son Mahamat/Maha Namaskar is a popular Hindu-Buddhist ritual that is an homage to the Buddha. The name Mahamat (literally “mahak”) is Sanskrit for’sacrifice’. Namaskar symbolises this in the form of a wooden elephant or large wooden tree with a single leg. In this event, the devotees sit cross-legged on their Continue Reading
Nusrat Morris
Nusrat Morris (Touny) – “I can’t remember.” [Tunisian translation: My wife has left me; [Tunisian translation: my wife has left me in the field]. ] I was going to run. He got in my face like he wanted me to get out of there, but I didn’t want to give Continue Reading
Felipe Shahzad
Felipe Shahzad I am one of seven boys and the only one who managed to win the first round in the national final last year. I was then selected to be the coach of the team at the Olympic Games in Moscow and it was great to meet all the Continue Reading
Annie Zamora
Annie Zamora is the co-founder of the New Hampshire Health Care Freedom Fund. The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the views of The Hill. As many Americans have already reported, the Senate failed to pass any sort of bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare last week. Continue Reading
Gerald Quan
Gerald Quan also said that his wife has been “overwhelmed in a way I never thought it would be when it comes to caring for a child and being a mother.” “The thing that is especially poignant about this is the impact it can make,” he said. The school district’s Continue Reading