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Interdisciplinary writing may offer a way to overcome value judgments and examine literature from “multiple perspectives” incorporating social, political, and economic factors, argues Professor Akua Duku Anokye

Lynched, stoned and buried alive; these are just some of the ways that people have been punished in recent years by indigenous, communal judges in the South American country of Bolivia.

Under the language department reforms proposed by the MLA, students would be trained as global citizens freed from the “Manichean” tendencies of American culture.

The result of the last election in Taiwan in which the opposition Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) won an overwhelming majority over the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) reinforces the influence of China in Taiwan.

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The popular online professor ratings site, ratemyprofessors.com, has been eliciting some fiery responses from professors objecting to insulting comments by anonymous posters.

Analysts predict that equipment shortages in the military may become a source for debate in the upcoming 2008 Presidential election.

To a lot of people foreign aid is a benevolent act and it should be upheld, while to others it is a waste of their tax dollars. But has foreign aid done more harm than good?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has conceded in its battle with state officials to implement secure state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards as part of the REAL ID Act of 2005.

Just as some environmentalists have co-opted the polar bear as a symbol for the predicted ecological crisis, Britt Rusert, a doctoral candidate at Duke University, visualizes polar exploration literature as a new outlet for this discourse.

Identifying race as a source of disease may seem like a practice from the Jim Crow era, resolved after scandals like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study; however, current studies linking genetics with disease could have similar implications for race, according to a report recently published by the Center for American Progress.

Young people watching a large chunk of their paychecks going to pay social security taxes may question why anyone would defend a program that, in an age of IRAs and 401 (k)s, seems to be such an anachronism. They might ask their professors, or just wait to hear them defend the status quo.

The Modern Language Association offers up a surprisingly circumspect examination of the character and the epithet.