The EU must keep up with new technologies
Elderly man uses his smartphone to video record the large crowd gathered on Jinan Road (濟南路), near the ROC Legislative Yuan (立法院) in Taipei (台北), 2014. Flickr/Tomscy2000. Some rights reserved.New…
This Comic Shatters The ‘Climate Change Isn’t New’ Argument
The intellectual arguments against manmade climate change are devolving at such a rapid pace they’d make Darwin blush, with a “survival of the unfit” guiding the evolutionary curve continually downward.…
Book review: Hamid Ismailov ‘The Underground’
Hamid Ismailov’s latest work, The Underground, is the story of the Soviet underground in the final years of the USSR – both above and below the surface. The tunnels of…
There’s A Movement To Draft Hillary Clinton For Mayor Of New York City
Click:polymer clay dog figurineAs we get closer to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, some focus is beginning to shift on what might be the follow-up act for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.…
Latino high schoolers could be deported to "certain death"
A diverse coalition of around 35,000 social justice activists mobilized by the Moral Monday Movement rallied in downtown Raleigh on February, 2014. Photo taken from the Flickr account of Stephen…
A Husband Is Appalled When He Sees What His Wife Goes Through In The Workplace
On Wednesday, The Washington Post’s pop music critic Chris Richards — who is married to Washington Post feature writer Caitlin Gibson — celebrated a “not uncommon, but always cool” moment in his marriage:…
Politics and diplomacy in Turkey: time to talk
Women protest in Istanbul against attacks on Kurds. Avni Kantan/Demotix. All rights reserved.The news coming out of Turkey at present is hardly cause for optimism. The political arena is paralysed…
Donald Trump Will Not Be Getting Any Deportation Help From The LAPD
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…
The streets are talking a lot, but democracy advances very little
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…
The untouchables: Egypt’s petty security officials
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…