Archive for August, 2010
The History of the “Dude”
I know a segue when I see one. “Dude” is a magnificent specimen for discussing language change in general, because its meaning has shifted and shimmied a ton in a relatively short period of time. Originally, back in the 1800s, [...]
Mongolian Neo-Nazis
A new strain of Nazism has found an unlikely home: Mongolia, with the rise of groups like the Tsagaan Khass, or White Swastika
The World’s Children
Twenty years after the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, multitudes of children across the globe are still suffering from poverty, abuse and disease. Each year, 4 million babies die before they are a month [...]




