Haiti Declares State of Emergency and Curfew After Thousands of Prisoners Escape From Jail
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Authorities have ordered a nighttime curfew in an attempt to regain control of Haiti’s streets after an explosion of violence during the weekend, including gunmen from gangs…
How fired cop became infamous super-gang boss dubbed ‘Barbecue’ who ‘burns victims alive’ in world’s most dangerous city
HAITI’S capital is descending into an all-out civil war and at the eye of the storm is a former cop who goes by “Barbecue”. Jimmy Chérizier, the most powerful gang…
Apple Fined Nearly $2 Billion by the European Union in Antitrust Penalty
LONDON — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Tuesday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for breaking the bloc’s competition laws by unfairly…
China’s Economic Slump Is Here to Stay
China is in the midst of a profound economic crisis. Growth rates are flagging as an unsustainable mountain of debt piles up; China’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached a record 288% in…
What a Mughal Princess Can Teach Us About Feminist History
In 2001, four rigorous graduate years into honing my scholarship as a feminist historian of Mughal India, I stepped in to help build the Program for the Study of Women,…