Our favorite think tank, the Manhattan Institute, just got a new president: the brilliant, heterodox writer Reihan Salam. Born and bred in Brooklyn and a graduate of the city’s public schools, he’s an ...

Although Salaam did not have a recorded admittance of guilt, The Village Voice reported that New York Police Detective Thomas McKenna testified that Salaam had confessed to assisting with the rape.

Men in civilian clothes snatched a Tanzanian human rights activist from a street in the commercial capital of Dar es Salaam on Friday, the rights group that employs him said, in what appeared to be ...

On June 1, the Tanzanian government banned the use of plastic bags, joining 33 other African nations in an effort to put an end to single-use, disposable plastic products. But plastic waste is still ...

Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” was only 15 years old when he was falsely accused and convicted for the assault and rape of jogger Trisha Meili, who was found nearly dead in ...