Editorials
Armenia’s Looming Demographic Crisis
Demography is the statistical study of populations. The size of a population, as well as its age structure, at any given point help tell the story of a nation; its ups and downs, and its […]
Opinion
Editorials
Narrating Racism
In the 1956 movie The Searchers, two white girls are abducted from their family homestead during a raid by Comanche Native Americans. With their parents murdered and one sister raped and left for dead, the […]
Opinion
A Nation of Tolerance
As youth who believe in the program and ideology of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), we stand united in a collective call against intolerance. We envision our homeland as a nation of acceptance, where everyone—regardless […]
Op-Eds
A Return to the Left
Spring 2018 was a watershed period for Armenia. The country had just transitioned into a parliamentary system, and the Republican party had nominated Serge Sarkisian, president since 2008, to the role of prime minister. Sarkisian’s […]
Letters
Editorials
Genealogy: A Tool for Empowerment or Ethnic Gatekeeping?
Since 2000, the tracing of ancestry utilizing genetic markers has skyrocketed in popularity. Genealogy is one of few categories of websites that competes with pornography for most user activity and is reportedly second only to […]
Op-Eds
If You Didn’t Know Where You Were Going, How Would You Get There?
It sounds cliché, of course, and you may argue that, well, yes, certain values and sometimes even great ideas always guide any reforms. After all, don’t we already strive for an education system that will […]
Op-Eds
Without Economic Democracy, Political Democracy Will Falter
This article appeared originally in Eastern Armenian on the site Hetq.am on June 22, 2018. In October, a group of local activists in the Boston area organized its translation, and this is the first time […]
Letters
An ARF Mystery: What happened to Unger Sarkis Zeitlian?
On March 28, 1985 during the Lebanese Civil War, Unger was abducted on his way to work in Beirut, Lebanon. His body was never found; his abductors were neither identified nor prosecuted. Thirty three years […]
Editorials
An Error We’re Pleased to Rectify
Last week, the Armenian Weekly published an announcement about its latest editorial staff, and shortly afterwards, we were notified that it contained a factual error, which we would like to take the opportunity to address. […]