May 2026

Dr. Tommy Martin is an American pastor, author, and community leader whose ministry has been defined by a willingness to serve populations that more comfortable ministry contexts avoid — the incarcerated, the addicted, the homeless, and the…

Dr. Farzad Mostashari is an Iranian-American physician, health policy expert, and entrepreneur whose career has placed him at the center of one of the most ambitious and consequential transformations in American healthcare — the shift from…

Dr. Anita Archer is one of the most celebrated and widely respected educational consultants and literacy experts in the United States — a teacher, trainer, and author whose work on explicit instruction, phonics, and reading skill…

Mildred García is one of the most accomplished Latina leaders in American higher education — an educator, administrator, and advocate who has spent her career working at the intersection of access, equity, and educational excellence in the…

Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua is one of the most significant and under-recognized figures in the history of Latin American independence movements — a Peruvian-born mestiza woman who was a co-leader of the Túpac Amaru II rebellion of 1780-1781,…

In the early hours of Saturday, May 16, 2026, US President Donald Trump made an announcement that reverberated across counterterrorism circles worldwide. American and Nigerian forces had just killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki — described by the US…

There is a particular kind of pressure that comes with being the son of a legend. Richard Momoima Onyonka has lived with that pressure for his entire public life — and by most measures, he has not just survived it, but built a formidable…

There are few figures in contemporary South Africa who provoke as much passionate debate as Zandile Dabula. She is not a politician who rose through party structures, nor a celebrity who stumbled into social commentary. She is, by all…

Who Was Bushy Maape? There are politicians who seek power, and then there are those on whom power is thrust — because the circumstances of their time leave no room for bystanders. Kaobitsa "Bushy" Maape belonged firmly in the second…

Morse Tan is an American legal scholar, human rights advocate, and government official whose career has moved between academic law, international human rights practice, and high-level governmental diplomacy. He served as the United States…