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Yaffa Fredrick

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Covers:  immigration, legal systems, global health, gender issues, politics, film
@HoustonChron senior director of investigations. Former @CNN senior editor. Schmoozer and shaker.
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The Russian Trump Card

The Russian Trump Card

Russia recently introduced a resolution at the United Nations condemning Nazism, xenophobia, and racism. Worl…

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To Privatize Infinity and Beyond

To Privatize Infinity and Beyond

Space travel has remained primarily exploratory and humanitarian thanks to the constraints of the internation…

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Education's Next Hurdle: Refugee Children

Education's Next Hurdle: Refugee Children

Most international education funding is tied to long-term development projects, which cannot adequately addre…

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Holding Up a Mirror

Holding Up a Mirror

"This time last year I started plotting to kill a man. This time last year I had a gun, and a silencer, and a…

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Verses of Love and War

Verses of Love and War

The writer on translating Pashto landays, the faces of violence in conflict zones, and why poetry offers a fo…

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Abiola Women: Agents of Change

Abiola Women: Agents of Change

By Yaffa Fredrick "Any society that is silencing its women has no future." -Hafsat Abiola In the face of unsp…

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What Jerusalem Can Learn from Coney Island

What Jerusalem Can Learn from Coney Island

By Yaffa Fredrick Two months ago, I witnessed one of my students die during gang initiation week. I stood sil…

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Japan's Child Abduction Laws in Limbo

Japan's Child Abduction Laws in Limbo

By Yaffa Fredrick There are some lists on which you'd rather not appear. The top ten countries with highest i…

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The Art of Acceptance: Turkish Edition

The Art of Acceptance: Turkish Edition

By Yaffa Fredrick Though homosexuality is legal in Turkey, 84 percent of Turkish citizens admit they'd prefer…

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Gulp...It's the End of Food

Gulp...It's the End of Food

What we eat may soon be the stuff that comes from synthetics - genetically modified vegetables, biologically …

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Take A Stand: Eliminate Election Fraud

Take A Stand: Eliminate Election Fraud

With passion, people are capable of the extraordinary - and not just in the purely positive sense. In fact, w…

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Curing the Science to Treat the Disease

Curing the Science to Treat the Disease

Curing the Science to Treat the Disease By Yaffa Fredrick, Massachussetts - January 2007 A week before film s…

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