Tag: Michelle Nicholasen

  • Nation & World

    Water, life, and climate change in South Asia

    In his latest book, Sunil Amrith, the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, describes the ageless link between water and prosperity in South Asia and examines the new challenges of climate change.

    9 minutes
    Images of raindrops on a windshield in India
  • Nation & World

    Mothers of stillborns face prison in El Salvador

    Shortly after passing a total abortion ban in 1997, El Salvador became the first Latin American nation to incarcerate women who suffered stillbirths and other obstetrical emergencies for the crime of homicide. Sociologist Jocelyn Viterna analyzes the cultural dynamics that transformed a “pro-life” movement into a political system that revoked women’s rights.

    8 minutes
    The resident of this house was sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated homicide after she miscarried
  • Nation & World

    Pick climate or economics 

    To make a difference on climate change, author Naomi Klein says, government and business would have to shift their ways, and likely won’t.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The borders between us

    In a new book, Harvard historian Charles Maier explores the boundaries that both separate and bind modern societies.

    11 minutes