Image via The Nepali Man The International Affairs Forum (IAF) at the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs recently hosted Kashish Das Shrestha, a policy analyst, writer, and environmental activist from Nepal. Besides being an advisor to Gagan Thapa, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Energy, and Natural Resources, Kashish is also a co-author… Read more »
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has been making history since his election in November 2014. The first challenger to unseat an incumbent Governor in Pennsylvania, Wolf has committed to reversing former Governor Corbett’s decision to not expand Medicaid and bolster President Obama’s health care reforms. However, despite an outlying victory in Pennsylvania, the 2014 midterm elections… Read more »
Image courtesy : CommonDreams.orgLast week, documentary filmmaker documentary filmmaker Finn Nørgaard, was killed in Denmark. Over 200 rounds from an automatic machine gun were fired into a cafe where he was attending a talk entitled, “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression.” Lars Vilks, a cartoonist who once published a caricature of the prophet Mohammed as a dog, and… Read more »