I’d been a teacher in the classroom for little more than a year when I came to a crossroads, either I should strike for teacher’s rights or cross a picket line. My impulse was to ignore the strike on behalf of my students, but when a senior teacher heard my decision, he shook hi

Islam Yaken is a middle class Egyptian youth who gave up his dream of becoming a professional trainer when the economy in his country tanked.  As his alternative, he chose to became an Isis terrorists. (“The Deadly allure of jihad,” reprint from The New York Times in The Week, Ma