Today’s Historical Headline: Women get the vote in Kuwait
The right to vote is essential to securing representation in government. On this day in 2005, women gained suffrage in Kuwait. To hear more on the impact of the Kuwaiti women’s voting bloc, head to the Council on Foreign Relations for a podcast with Isobel Coleman. To read about troubles in Kuwaiti democracy in light of the Arab Spring, here’s what The Economist has to say.
Today’s headline is from Middle East Online - our first non-print headline in this series. It’s newer than some of our previous headlines, but history happens every day, right?
(Photo from here.)
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The New Yorker has introduced Strongbox, a tool for users to submit documents and correspondence without fear of being traced. Amy Davidson notes in her description of the tool that readers and sources have sent materials to the New Yorker for decades, but now, more than ever, it’s easier to trace where they came from. She writes, “[A]s it’s set up, even we won’t be able to figure out where files sent to us come from. If anyone asks us, we won’t be able to tell them.”
The tool was created by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen. The image above, created by the New Yorker, demonstrates how it works.
Read more: Introducing Strongbox, a Tool for Anonymous Document-Sharing : The New Yorker](http://24.media.tumblr.com/033a45447c5dc3dcdf3653e884b10517/tumblr_mmuovrOwv81qiw6fso1_500.jpg)
