March 18 marked the one year anniversary of the conclusion of Turkey’s unprovoked and aggressive invasion of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwest Syria and the beginning of the ongoing...
It’s a funny thing, writing a story about Brexit this week. There has been a lot of news. A lot. I’ve had the BBC News channel on almost constantly and I still only have a passing familiarity...
I feel for wealthy helicopter parents. They’re a maligned demographic. All they want is for their prized possessions, I mean, children, to have the best of everything, at all costs, every single...
This is not normal. That’s what many continue to chant under their breath in the Trump era as the institutional norms of America crumble around us. One only needs to look to the much talked about...
I’m disabled but I don’t have a disability. For a long while, I was both disabled and able-bodied at the same time. Does that sound like it doesn’t make any sense? Let me explain. I know that...
“They're talking about tomatoes, aubergines, peppers. But just think about the price of bullets. Think of what the cost is to equip our soldiers to fight terrorists. But you're still talking about...
Half an hour outside of the small dusty town of Damak in eastern Nepal is a tiny bamboo village. This town is almost thirty years old, yet does not exist on Nepali maps. Its name has a number at the...
Having the luxury to have your work separated from your negative actions as an individual, is the one of the many, many, many definitions of “white male privilege”. And one of the prime examples...
In 2010, Sally Challen, after suffering decades of emotional abuse at the hands of her husband, killed him (with a hammer, the tabloids love to describe). She was convicted of murder and many...
I know what you’re thinking — ”Another North Korea summit? But wasn’t the great dealmaker in chief supposed to have solved everything with the last one?” I mean, sure. He was. Kind of. But...