Must reads: Black Lives Matter
This weekend, protests across the United States, and the world, highlighted the unacceptably high death toll of young Black men publicly executed by police. With presidential conventions rapidly...
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Alan Clarke Retrospective: The Firm (director’s cut)
Let’s begin, at the end of the 1980s and the world of The Firm. The beautiful game is being defiled by the English disease, pumped around the body politic by Football Specials and Intercity trains,...
Tulip O’Hare: The new iteration of women and violence in media
AMC's Preacher wouldn't have been possible without Hannibal and True Blood before it — it's an orgiastic, perplexing, sometimes confusing celebration of violence and mayhem. Trying to sum up...
Must reads: Baghdad bombing, Brexit, Nexit, Rio Olympics, and naked bike rides
We start the week on a somber note with multiple terrible attacks across the world — a reminder of the grim, broad reach of terrorism in a global community. Yet, what these attacks should show us...
Is gentrification killing Kowloon?
For many westerners living in Hong Kong, the Kowloon Peninsula has long been referred to as the “Dark Side”. Across the harbor from more “expat friendly” neighborhoods on Hong Kong Island —...
Taxing opiates will not fix America’s addiction problems
The so-called “prescription pill epidemic” has been making headlines in the U.S. for years—and much to the consternation of chronic pain patients and their advocates, few media outlets or...
Donald Trump is obsessed with dictators
Donald Trump's bellicose and confrontational approach to everything and everyone he deems a threat to him and his perceived interests has made him infamous – or radical, depending on your viewpoint...
7 key takeaways from the Supreme Court’s latest abortion decision
The clock was ticking on the Supreme Court's term when it finally released a ruling in Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt, a landmark decision exploring the constitutionality of Texas' HB2, a law...
Must Reads: Brexit aftermath, housing in San Francisco, and LGBQT life after Orlando
This week, we're watching the Brexit fallout, looking at important conversations in the LGBQT community, and learning more about the mechanisms behind housing prices in San Francisco. Here on Global...
Destructive and divisive: a response to the British Brexit referendum
Yesterday, the UK voted to leave the European Union. Much of the analysis and commentary I saw the night before the vote was tentatively predicting a win for ‘remain’, and the betting shops were...