by Jonathan Bach | Nov 30, 2015 | Food for Thought, Stories
An income gap that, despite Bernie Sanders’ best efforts, yawns perversely wide. Harrowing rates of gun violence. Racial and religious tensions running high. Call this country afflicted — yet despite our problems, swarms of foreign nationals still yearn to call the...
by Jonathan Bach | Nov 23, 2015 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
Crossings Radio traveled to Azerbaijan – and you can’t talk about the former Soviet bloc country without talking about human rights. Research Fellow Jonathan Bach analyzes the situation in Azerbaijan. Research and quotes used herein have also been used in...
by Jonathan Bach | Nov 18, 2015 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
What does it mean to safeguard a culture? Do cultures even need protection, and if so, why? Crossings Radio talked with Lisa Gilman, author of UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage, about UNESCO’s list of...
by Jonathan Bach | Nov 7, 2015 | Conflict Sensitive Reporting, Crossings Radio and Crossings News
A devastating photo of a young Syrian boy found washed up on Turkish shores took on a life of its own in 2015. Mike McInally — editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times — decided to publish the photo to the front page of his newspaper in the relatively small...
by Jonathan Bach | Nov 1, 2015 | Food for Thought, Stories
For an election-time column like this, one might wax philosophical about the possible outcomes of a neck-in-neck match. About the 2015 general elections in Britain, writer Jonathan Freedland quipped in his Guardian op-ed: “As horseraces go, this one should be...