A brief guide to the Don Dale scandal
On 25 July, the ABC – Australia’s version of the BBC – aired a terrific program of Four Corners, exploring how guards in the Northern Territory (NT) were brutalising children…
Taiwan Just Made LGBTQ History
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…
United against Spain’s Gag Laws: change bottom-up
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,…
Twist of fate: terror, torture and justice in the 9/11 trial in Guantánamo Bay
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…
Just Days Before Final Vote, French Presidential Candidate Plagiarizes Speech
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…
A fascist history of the Egyptian revolution III: phase two, from the numinous to the real
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…
A Former Ball Boy Wants To Turn His Daughter Into The Next Serena Williams
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…
Outraged Teens Sue After Drug-Hunting Cops Pat Down 900 Students At School
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…
Are litmus tests on culture spreading from Israel to Berlin?
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…
Boy With Cancer Asks Comedian For Heartbreaking Favor That Takes Huge Twist
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…