by FPA Administrator | Jun 4, 2015 | Monitor
The School of International Service Building at American University, Washington, D.C. Photo Credit: Jeff Watts By Jeremy Taylor In 2009, President Obama outlined a vision of sending 100,000 Americans to China for study abroad programs by 2014. This vision would...
by FPA Administrator | Jun 1, 2015 | Monitor
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Gabriel Zisk scrubs the walls of a local school during a Community Assistance Volunteer project in which servicemembers and civilians assigned to Camp Lemonnier began preparing the school for painting. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt....
by FPA Administrator | May 30, 2015 | Monitor
(Photo: Aitor Escauriaza via Flickr) The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet The Atlantic By David A. Graham Spanning both party’s entire fields, including no-brainers like Hillary Clinton and no-names like Lincoln Chafee, The Atlantic brings you an...
by FPA Administrator | May 26, 2015 | Monitor
An Aga Khan health center in Afghanistan. By Hussein Rashid The recent attack against Ismaili Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan, will be read by most as part of a simple narrative of an ongoing Sunni-Shi’ah conflict. Unfortunately, as consistent fear-mongering has...
by FPA Administrator | Mar 14, 2013 | Monitor
By Sarwar Kashmeri “Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role,” former Secretary of State Dean Acheson presciently observed in his 1962 speech at the U.S. Military Academy/West Point. It is the epigram with which David Hannay, the former British...