It’s a question I’ve been asking myself for weeks now. Since its beginnings on a Saturday night in September, the Occupy movement has spread like wildfire across the country and indeed the...
Yesterday, Cristina Fernandez was re-elected as President of Argentina with 54% of the votes (as of this writing, media reports she won by 54%, with final results expected by the end of the week,...
Ugandan children hiding at night from LRA kidnappers, public domain. This week, President Barack Obama authorized 100 Special Forces operatives to enter Uganda in an advisory capacity aimed at wiping...
Crops are rotting on the vine in the United States, thanks to a shortage of workers to pick them, resulting in substantial losses for farmers and their communities at the same time that people in the...
Two weeks after a small band of protesters set up camp in New York’s Liberty Plaza Park, deep in the heart of the financial district, our numbers have expanded to staggering numbers. This is true...
Two men were murdered by the state last night in ‘legal executions’ in Texas and Georgia, respectively. Lawrence Russel Brewer was a white supremacist who committed a vile hate crime and was...
I remember the first time I visited the United Nations. I walked through the courtyard, marveling at every flag of every nation majestically poised against the backdrop of the beautiful, glass...
In an important victory for transgender and intersex activists, Australian passports will now be issued in three sexes - male, female, and an indeterminate X. The Australian passport office...
Australia has long struggled with its own institutional xenophobia. From its very beginnings with the infamous “White Australia” policy, the nation has been shaped by racist policies that almost...
Apparently the 80s are back in vogue, again. With a Tory government sitting in Parliament--or rather, holidaying in Tuscany as David Cameron was--rioting is again occurring on the streets of London....