There are very clear, serious and daunting reasons why we should worry about the prospect of a Trump presidency in the United States. With him effectively grabbing the Republican nomination for...
The catastrophic Syrian civil war and the clashes between Islamist and secular militants that have gone on since 2011 have razed what used to be a middle-income country of 20 million people to the...
Picture the scene: a woman goes to a railway track, determined to self-harm. Eventually, after negotiation with police officers, she resists the urge to hurt herself and leaves the scene. Relief all...
The moment that at first seemed a laughable parody, then seemed a terrifying possibility, then appeared to be a horrific inevitability, is finally here: Donald Trump has taken the Republican...
In junior secondary school, one of my teachers used the following example to illustrate the difference between potential and kinetic energy: potential energy is the energy a ball possesses when...
Highly successful and bestselling recording artist, guitarist, and gender-bending fashion icon Prince died yesterday at his Paisley Park recording studio complex, in his hometown of Chanhassen,...
The internet, as we're reminded frequently, is for porn — and that includes everything from the high art to the amateur, the videos and snippets shot in bedrooms all over the world and uploaded for...
The internet's impact on greater society is one of intense transparency. A lot of things we knew were a part of life but didn't encounter on a daily basis — from hardcore pornography to the release...
When Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, was elected as President of Indonesia in late 2014, the world was enthralled. He was expected to be different — the first President in the nation's...
New Yorkers will be heading to the polls next week, and with 291 Democratic delegates at stake, there's a lot on the line: New York could become a breaking point in the Clinton-Sanders headlock, and...
