Militarizing space is a very bad idea
In mid-August, US State Department officials criticized Russia over its newly launched “abnormal” and “disturbing” inspection satellite. These claims connote a belief held by the American...
Category: Politics
Why Brexit medication shortages terrify me
A few months ago, KFC changed its logistics provider that organised its deliveries of chicken. It went horribly wrong and, for week after week after week, the store had no chicken to sell its...
The Yezidi people face a human rights crisis
On August 3, 2016, I accompanied some displaced Yezidi victims of the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group back to the ruins of their city, Sinjar, where they demonstrated against their continued...
American expats protest Trump from afar
Lena Muldoon and Emily Pittman, two blonde, twenty-something, United States expatriates in Buenos Aires, Argentina, led a small but stalwart group of protesters. They marched through the late June...
Transphobic parents shut down school district with threat of violence
Transphobes have caused a school district in the States to be temporarily closed down after they threatened a 12-year-old girl with violence and abuse. Students in the area of Achille in Oklahoma...
The Future of Crowdsourced Medicine
Imagine for a moment that you live in a country with too many people and too little infrastructure. A large city might have better medical care, but you don't live in a large city. You don't even...
#WednesdayWisdom: We have the Omarosa Tape and it’s shocking!
This is a transcript of a Situation Room recording provided to us exclusively by Omarosa Maginault Newman. Or it’s a horror movie script. Or it’s both. We report, you decide. John Kelly:...
Will Boris get away with his ‘burqa’ insults?
Boris Johnson has been making headlines all week following a column he wrote in which he described women wearing burkas as looking like letter boxes and bank robbers. He was actually talking about...
UK Government’s zero-tolerance drugs policy is proving deadly
Medical experts denounce policy’s “false claims and empty promises” and doctors join call for decriminalisation of drugs — but is the Government capable of listening? Deaths caused by drugs...
A UK plastic straw ban would be a disaster
I’ve recently got very into eating yoghurt. It’s fruity and fresh and tasty and I can’t believe I didn’t eat any for years, but they were so associated with diet culture that I couldn’t...