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An increasingly fragile construct depending less and less on notions of sacrifice and obligation than on the ephemera of romance and happiness as defined by and for its adult principals, the intact, two-parent family remains our cultural ideal, but it exists under constant assault. It is buffeted by affairs...
In 1953, Australian scientist David Warren was investigating the crash of a De Havilland Comet in India. Warren couldn't determine the cause of the accident - in which the jet went down six minutes after takeoff, killing all 43 people onboard - because there wasn't any useful information preserved in...
Versions of Section 377 - often identified by the same three digits - exist throughout the former British colonies of Asia and Africa, and there is some hope among activists in the region that today's ruling will help efforts elsewhere. Nepal has already overturned the law, but as the largest country...
Shakhawat Hossain, moderator of Boys of Bangladesh, an online community that helps and supports gay Bangladeshis, says that India, because of its cultural and historic ties to Bangladesh, can influence the direction of the gay rights movement there. "This ruling certainly would boost up the work that is going on...
A quick glance at the papers told me, however, that I was stuck in the past. The Lega Nord no longer simply spelled federalism and social conservatism. No, this right-wing-populist party had taken a different direction: anti-immigration policy. In fact, in 2002, a politician associated with the...