Sitting around the long, wooden kitchen table in their farmhouse on a Sunday afternoon, Rene and Judith Dekker were tired-eyed from rising before dawn to tend to their 1,200 dairy cows. Their two older kids were packing up for the drive back to college ...

“Rape is a big, big problem. It starts with the woman. They drive the man f*cking crazy.” Papi Gonzales leans back in his chair and surveys the other young Indian men around the table in his beach bar, seeking approval. They nod in agreement, ...

In its latest human rights report, not a great read, the United Kingdom’s House of Commons foreign affairs committee wondered if the government attitude to “countries of concern” isn’t a wee bit too “low key.” Britain’s relations with Saudi Arabia, for instance, would benefit ...

Evgeny Morozov is a Belarus-born technology writer who has held positions at Stanford and Georgetown universities in the United States. His first book, “The Net Delusion,” argued that “Western do-gooders may have missed how [the Internet] … entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it ...

Sweden is often hailed as a progressive society promoting equality for all, but transsexuals who had to accept sterilization to complete their sex change operations are pushing for compensation after a change in the law. Nova Colliander, a 31-year-old who completed her transformation from ...

A year ago, Jason Russell was a nobody. Not a nobody, precisely, but just ordinary. Normal. He was a healthy father of two, living in San Diego, and was happy in his work as a director for Invisible Children, a nonprofit organization he’d helped ...

Faced with a spike in sexual violence against female protesters, Egyptian women are overcoming stigma and recounting painful testimonies to force silent authorities and a reticent society to confront “sexual terrorism.” The victims of the attacks have been talking openly about their ordeals, insisting ...

On an April 2009 visit to the Italian mountain town of Sulmona, Pope Benedict XVI solemnly placed his pallium, the vestment symbolizing his papal authority, on the tomb of Celestine V. The medieval pontiff’s abdication in 1294 had resulted in imprisonment by his successor ...