Taiwan’s highest court delivered a history-making ruling on Wednesday, opening up the country’s laws to allow same-sex marriages. Judges deemed current laws preventing same-sex unions from happening as unconstitutional and…
Five years ago Spain’s ‘indignados’ or the 15M movement erupted onto the scene in the context of a political and socio-economic crisis resulting from successive corruption scandals, social welfare cuts,…
A sculpture of José Antonio Elvira to protest about the situation in the nearby Guantanamo prisoner, 2005 camps.Wikicommons/Zosimo.Some rights reserved.Five men stand accused for planning the terrorist attacks on 11…
Click:DIY Toy setThe comparisons between far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and Trump continue to stack up. Only instead of plagiarizing a fictional super villain, Le Pen repeated several…
Nariman El-Mofty/AP/Press Association. All rights reserved.Like any fascist regime, Sisi’s military junta has been predominantly dependent on myths of national pride. Its inauguration was made possible in 2013 by propagating…
It's past 8 p.m. on a Saturday night, and a housing complex in central Mumbai resonates with the dull thud of tennis balls on the hard, blue court. Kartiki Salvi, who at 5 feet…
Every once in awhile one of my teen sons comes home and tells me that someone got busted with drugs at school. But that doesn’t mean all the kids on campus…
Director Miraz Bezar (L) and festival curator Mary el-Qalqili (C) speak with Ismail Khalidi (on screen), playwright of ‘Tennis in Nablus.’ (Photo by Anna-Esther Younes)A celebration of Palestinian arts and…
Comedian Russell Howard recently received an email from the parents of a 14-year-old fan named Derrick, saying their son was battling terminal cancer and would love to meet his favorite stand-up…
ISIL fighters. flickr/photographer Day Donaldson. Some rights reserved. Raqqa, 8 December 2016Thank you for your letter and for asking after my brother. I must apologise for taking so long to…