Race and Ethnicity

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  • John Kerry, U.S. secretary of state, right, and Susan Rice, U.S. national security advisor, listen during a joint news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, not pictured, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe goes before the U.S. Congress on Wednesday to present Japan as a stalwart ally that's willing to play a bigger military role in Asia, a message likely to be embraced in Washington and greeted with suspicion in Seoul and Beijing. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
    John Kerry, U.S. secretary of state, right, and Susan Rice, U.S. national security advisor, listen during a joint news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, not pictured, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe goes before the U.S. Congress on Wednesday to present Japan as a stalwart ally that's willing to play a bigger military role in Asia, a message likely to be embraced in Washington and greeted with suspicion in Seoul and Beijing. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    The State Department Has a Diversity Problem

    Despite decades of attempts to make the Foreign Service look more like the real America, it’s still pretty much white, male, and Yale.

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    ‘How Happy Is the One Who Says, I Am a Turk!’

    The war between the military and Kurdish insurgents is really a conflict over what it means to be a citizen of Turkey. That’s why there’s no end in sight to the bloodshed.

  • Members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC military wing , carry the coffin of the assassinated South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Chris Hani, at the vigil in Soweto on April 18, 1993.        (Photo credit should read WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images)
    Members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC military wing , carry the coffin of the assassinated South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Chris Hani, at the vigil in Soweto on April 18, 1993. (Photo credit should read WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images)

    Janusz Walus Killed an Anti-Apartheid Hero. Now He Is Slated for Parole.

    Many South Africans are not prepared to see Janusz Walus released from prison, even 23 years after his cold-blooded murder of Chris Hani.

  • Pakistani students shout slogans against the attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on January 25, 2016. Pakistan has pledged further action to combat militants, but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif admitted progress had often been slow, speaking just days after a deadly attack by heavily armed gunmen on a university campus killed 21 people. AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED / AFP / A Majeed        (Photo credit should read A MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images)
    Pakistani students shout slogans against the attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on January 25, 2016. Pakistan has pledged further action to combat militants, but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif admitted progress had often been slow, speaking just days after a deadly attack by heavily armed gunmen on a university campus killed 21 people. AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED / AFP / A Majeed (Photo credit should read A MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images)

    Identity Goes Beyond Islam in Pakistan

    A country founded on the basis of religious identity, Pakistan must now embrace ethnic pluralism to find unity in the fight against terrorism.

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    America’s Police Problem Isn’t Just About Police

    It’s about race, poverty, and sky-high levels of violence. Why is the United States such a global outlier?

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    Only You Can Prevent Islamophobia

    The dangers of letting Donald Trump set the national dialogue.

  • MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - JUNE 28:  A cat walks near the Old Bridge in front of a sign "Don't Forget" as the city of Mostar remembers the 1993 conflict on June 28, 2013 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Siege of Mostar peaked in 1993 during the Croat-Bosniak conflict lasting eighteen months as fighting took place as Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. The city was divided in half between the two battling armies. Mostar, dating back over four hundred years, was mostly destroyed through the fighting. Although reconstruction has slowly commenced in the last decades, evidence of the war remains in bullet ravaged buildings still standing throughout the city.   (Photo by Marco Secchi/Getty Images)
    MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - JUNE 28: A cat walks near the Old Bridge in front of a sign "Don't Forget" as the city of Mostar remembers the 1993 conflict on June 28, 2013 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Siege of Mostar peaked in 1993 during the Croat-Bosniak conflict lasting eighteen months as fighting took place as Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. The city was divided in half between the two battling armies. Mostar, dating back over four hundred years, was mostly destroyed through the fighting. Although reconstruction has slowly commenced in the last decades, evidence of the war remains in bullet ravaged buildings still standing throughout the city. (Photo by Marco Secchi/Getty Images)

    The Town Dayton Turned Into a Garbage Dump

    Twenty years after Bosnia's peace deal, Mostar -- once an emblem of hope -- has become a symbol of stagnation: Croats on one side, Bosniaks on the other, and rats everywhere.

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    Between the World and U.S.

    The essential foreign policy book of 2015 isn’t about foreign policy.

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    @Khamenei.ir Blasts the United States for #Ferguson

    As St. Louis declares a state of emergency, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called out the United States, again, for hypocrisy when it comes to American racial relations.

  • Myanmar soldiers patrol in Laukkai, the main city in the Kokang region of northern Myanmar Shan state, on February 16, 2015. Growing fighting between Myanmar's Army and ethnic Kokang fighters in a region bordering China has killed dozens in the past week and sent tens of thousands fleeing across the frontier, reports said on February 16. AFP / STRINGER        (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
    Myanmar soldiers patrol in Laukkai, the main city in the Kokang region of northern Myanmar Shan state, on February 16, 2015. Growing fighting between Myanmar's Army and ethnic Kokang fighters in a region bordering China has killed dozens in the past week and sent tens of thousands fleeing across the frontier, reports said on February 16. AFP / STRINGER (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

    The United States of Myanmar?

    A federal system of government may be Myanmar's best step forward towards national unity and a more robust democratic process.

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    Destroying Homes for Kurdistan

    Diplomats and human rights workers claim that America’s closest ally in Iraq is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to push Arabs out of the future Kurdish state.

  • SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 27: A woman helps Francisco Pavon, center, wave a rainbow pride flag and an American flag during a gay pride celebration on June 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California.  The Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry nationwide without regard to their state's laws. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 27: A woman helps Francisco Pavon, center, wave a rainbow pride flag and an American flag during a gay pride celebration on June 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California. The Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry nationwide without regard to their state's laws. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

    White Supremacist Web Forum Suggests Burning Rainbow Flags for July 4

    Just a week after the Supreme Court knocked down a gay-marriage ban in the United States, white supremacists are suggesting burning rainbow flags for July 4.

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    Kind of the point

    Why Americans should start naming things for black American heroes.

  • NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 19:  In this image from the video uplink from the detention center to the courtroom, Dylann Roof appears at Centralized Bond Hearing Court June 19, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Roof is charged with nine counts of murder and firearms charges in the shooting deaths at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17. (Photo by Grace Beahm-Pool/Getty Images)
    NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 19: In this image from the video uplink from the detention center to the courtroom, Dylann Roof appears at Centralized Bond Hearing Court June 19, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Roof is charged with nine counts of murder and firearms charges in the shooting deaths at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17. (Photo by Grace Beahm-Pool/Getty Images)

    The New Face of Global White Nationalist Terror

    The Charleston shooter, like Anders Breivik, shows how the radical white right has become ever more unhinged and dangerous.

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