Harrison was born in New York City and raised in Newtown, Connecticut. He has since lived in ten U.S. states, plus New Zealand. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Journalism and International Relations from NYU, Harrison is also a lawyer, pilot, guitarist, and hockey player. His top five movies are: The Natural, Hook, Top Gun, E.T., and Field of Dreams. He regularly listens to Dokken.
The songs featured on this list are from “obscure” European rock bands, from what I consider, arbitrarily, as the “third-tier” and “fourth-tier” of success. These guys were big enough to sign a record deal, get a video or two made, perform as the opening act for “second-tier” groups. But they failed to achieve consistent, sustained success. They didn’t headline stadiums…
The songs featured on this list are from “obscure” European rock bands, from what I consider, arbitrarily, as the “third-tier” and “fourth-tier” of success. These guys were big enough to sign a record deal, get a video or two made, perform as the opening act for “second-tier” groups. But they failed to achieve consistent, sustained success. They didn’t headline stadiums…
Last month, the US Senate blocked the Women’s Health Protection Act. The WHPA was a flailing attempt to codify abortion rights while the US Supreme Court decides Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—a case that could overturn the abortion rights upheld in Roe v. Wade. Few issues incite constituent passion like abortion. Many single-issue voters are voting in accordance with…
Rui Johnson Petri / Assistant Editor
Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, Rui Johnson Petri is currently pursuing a Master’s in Journalism and International Relations Program at NYU. She has an LL.M. from Lund University in international human rights law, but decided to pursue journalism to bring her different worlds together — law, human rights, and investigative research – and help hold states accountable for rights violations worldwide. She is also passionate about art and looks forward to exploring the creative scene in New York City.
As Russian forces have pulled back from Kyiv and its surrounding suburbs, chilling accounts of attacks against civilians have emerged. Photos from Bucha showed strewn bodies in the street with hands tied and gunshot wounds to the head. A recent Human Rights Watch report documented “unspeakable, deliberate cruelty and violence against Ukrainian civilians,” including rape, sexual violence, torture, execution, and…
Last year, the 1951 Refugee Convention, the main international instrument granting refugees and asylum seekers fundamental human rights, celebrated its 70th anniversary. However, a growing number of European countries are failing to uphold the right to asylum guaranteed in the Convention. EU policy has strayed far from the commitments that member states made in the Convention. During the past years,…
A century ago, in 1921, history was made when women in Sweden cast their ballots for the first time after a long and hard-fought battle for suffrage. A century later, in 2021, Sweden reached another milestone for gender equality by electing its first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson. Sweden is the last Nordic country to elect a woman to the…
I am American—my mother is from Illinois, and I have US citizenship—but I grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. I recently moved to New York City and living here has made me realize that I lack American cultural fluency. Thousands of kilometers away from Stockholm, where I grew up, the past three months have revealed differences between Sweden and the United…
Land rights disputes between the Swedish state and the Sámi (samerna)—an indigenous minority group that have resided in Sweden’s arctic (Sápmi)—date back centuries. The Reindeer Husbandry Act (rennäringslagen), grants the Sámi exclusive rights to reindeer husbandry—a civil and constitutional right for all Sámi people according to the Swedish Supreme Court—which includes hunting and fishing rights. But there are several hoops…
