Natural Disaster Management in the Wake of Hurricans

The first big hit of the hurricane season came in Texas. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in August of 2017 and flooded much of the Texas coastline, not to mention some of the surrounding states as well. Then, Hurricane Irma landed, ravaging parts of the Caribbean as...

The Bitcoin Blockchain and its Implications

Since its conception, Bitcoin and the mechanisms that make it work have been an object of both fascination and ridicule, with its enthusiasts insisting it is the way of the future and its detractors deriding it as a scheme doomed to fail. However, while debate over...

Making a Run For It

In 2017, one might assume that women and men are equally represented in government. From casual observation, women appear to be well-represented in a wide range of other professions. Why would the political realm be different, where the familiar faces of Hillary...

The Rohingya Crisis

Myanmar, a country with a majority Buddhist population and a Nobel Peace Prize winner as head of government, would seem to be an unlikely location for ethnic cleansing or genocide. However, it is the epicenter of an ethnic conflict between the Rohingya, the Muslim...