In the midst of the greatest economic crisis of the post-war era, Bernard Madoff was forced to reveal the Ponzi scheme he had been running for years, when there weren’t enough funds to pay off the flood of redemption requests during this time of financial market turmoil. In fact, the trustee supervising the bankruptcy of Madoff’s funds recently revealed that “not a single investment had been made on behalf of clients in 13 years” (1). But...

An increasing trend towards non-traditional health practices is emerging internationally. This presents promising healthcare options, yet some basic issues remain unclear. In an effort to provide a broader understanding of this emerging issue, various types of complementary and alternative medicines are explored, and the reasons for increased use briefly examined. Understanding complementary and alternative medicine allows individuals to contemplate a range of h...

“When the waters are murky, we cannot see the fish,” declared Khieu Samphân in 1990, former President of the Khmer Rouge regime of Democratic Kampuchea (DK), in power from 1975 to 1979 in Cambodia. The statement seems rather ironic to us today: after decades of living in impunity, Khieu Samphân is now one of the rare high dignitaries from the DK who is in detention, pending a preliminary hearing for a tribunal slated to get underway in ...

While at play with the border in the virtual and futuristic world of the video game Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter2,  we are confronted by the extent to which it imitates actual U.S.-Mexico border politics. The extreme sense of urgency and panic evident in the game about the potential penetration of American soil by borderhackers, mirrors the fears and anxieties conveyed by Americans about external dangers to national security after 9/11. The respo...