This week, President Obama announced a sweeping series of executive actions to address the urgent need for gun reform in the United States, attempting to circumvent Congress since it refuses to act...
Welcome to America, everything is terrible. Or, rather, not welcome to America, should a recent US proposal to radically modify the visa waiver programme successfully pass. All signs point to yes,...
On Thanksgiving, I, like millions of other people across the US, sat at my Thanksgiving day table and promptly got into a fight with my conservative family members. Thanksgiving is one of the most...
It's been 25-years since the first, technically legal pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey, the People's Labour Party (HEP), was formed. The party was banned in the summer of 1993 due to its open...
Noted transphobe and feminist theorist Germaine Greer has yet again lurched into the newsweek with trenchant and scintillating commentary on the trans experience, via dehumanising and misgendering...
It was back in 2013 that I first interviewed filmmaker Angad Singh Bhalla for this site. At the time Bhalla was trying to spread the word about his debut feature doc “Herman’s House,” which...
Many lengthy in-depth discussions about the Middle East today revolve around the future of Iraq and Syria with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict barely getting, if lucky, a passing mention at best. So...
You know the Middle East is horrendously chaotic when a war which has cost over 2000 lives and, according to the United Nations, left over 6.5 million people at risk of starvation and most of a...
It's worth noting that the entrance of the term, and indeed concept, of 'humanitarian intervention' into the general lexicon was a mere quarter-century ago. In the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf...
Shadi Petosky is a visual artist from Los Angeles who has worked on several graphic novels and animation projects—currently, she’s a member of Puny Entertainment, a Minneapolis and LA-based...
