There are over 3 million undocumented immigrants in the state of California alone, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Over 1 million of them live in Los Angeles County. This…
Free Pass protest in Sao Paulo. Vinicius Pinheiro. Flickr. All rights reserved. Democracy is not only a "method" for making decisions and a set of rules for governing a political…
Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images. All rights reserved.Over the past few months, news of repression coming out of Egypt has witnessed a qualitative shift: it has been worsening. First, there was the…
Say what you will about Americans, but they like to put their money where their mouth is. On a wave of unprecedented uncertainty and suspicion around Donald Trump’s incoming administration,…
Click:brick making machineSergei Loiko is an Russian-American journalist who has spent the last year covering the war in Ukraine. He's also a friend, and has now written Airport, a novel…
Donald Trump’s executive order targeting refugees and immigrants may have only been the second most disastrous decision he made this weekend. On Saturday, Trump quietly demoted the Joint Chiefs of…
Demotix/Nils Henrik. All rights reserved.Saddam Hussein created the Fedayeen Saddam in 1994 as a paramilitary Praetorian unit. The Fedayeen were initially charged with protecting the regime from a repeat of…
You know the feeling. You’ve just spent years—maybe even decades—saving every penny possible to pay off your student loans. Finally, the time has come to write that last check. You…
While professional sports leagues and athletes encourage LGBTQ participation through initiatives like the You Can Play Project and Athlete Ally, a study published by The University of British Columbia researchers…
Locals attend murdered indigenous activist Berta Caceres' funeral in La Esperanza, 200 km northwest of Tegucigalpa, on March 5, 2016. Orlando Sierra/Getty Images. All rights reserved.Berta Cáceres could be seen…