Rudely awakened from his Swedish love nest, cold-blooded American Jack executes three people. The striking landscape he inhabits is too exposed, too clear from the clutter of civilisation to...
In a recent interview with Anderson Cooper, Eminem posed an interesting question: Why does he seem to be the focus of intense media scrutiny when it comes to his homophobic and sexist lyrics?...
Two years and some change (or, depending on who you ask, nearly three years and NO change) into his presidency, Barack Obama's policies have upset and disappointed me. I had high hopes for a...
Jon Stewart has spent quite a bit of time making fun of Rick Sanchez, and this week, Sanchez appeared on the satellite radio show "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick" and fired back. Sanchez called Stewart...
I am volunteering for an environmental justice organization in a large northern city. This group works on environmental health issues with the city’s poor, mostly African-Americans and Puerto...
Just a note before I start: this is the 1000th post on Global Comment! To celebrate, why not become a subscriber and help us keep bringing you thought-provoking content? The real objective of...
I am a former migrant worker. I worked the blueberry fields as a kid, as did most kids in my community. I was a lucky worker--I never had to migrate from state to state to follow work (I just went...
Every once in awhile a movie comes along that rekindles the passion we cine-maniacs had when we first fell in love with art films. This year, The 48th New York Film Festival (running from September...
As a Pakistani-American who was raised Muslim, I've been abstaining from weighing in on the unrestrained anti-Muslim crusade that has recently metastasized to untenable proportions worldwide, partly...
The Big C is making quite a splash in cable programming. Laura Linney stars as Cathy Jamison, a high school history teacher diagnosed with Stage-IV melanoma. Cathy eschews chemotherapy and opts not...
