Ukraine, which is de facto at war with Russia, got a five-year gas transit contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom, and will likely get a 25 percent discount for direct supplies of Russian natural...
Around the world, some products are illegally created as copies of others to take advantage of their image, but the Venezuelan government has gone much further. After Kellogg's announced in 2018 that...
Another Friday found me participating in the Climate Strike protest of the town I study in. Another gathering of younger and older people. The same chants with the familiar warm-blooded passion of...
We all spend much of our time buried in our phones, keeping up with what social media has to offer. But the good stuff can get lost in the mix. So, we wanted to share with you some of the better...
Last week I went to see Cats, the movie. I fully expected to hate it, having forgotten the wonder the nerdy, musicals-obsessed 13 year old I once was felt years ago in the Bradford Alhambra. In fact,...
While 2019 was a crappy year for politics and the effects of climate change (among other things), it was an outstanding year for pop culture. If you had trouble navigating the firehose-like release...
I spent an hour and a half at the pharmacy the other day. First, there was a “hold” on my prescription. Then the pharmacist needed to help other customers. Then the insurance needed to be...
Let me begin by stating the obvious. For the majority of his life, US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg passed as a straight white male. This is how others viewed him, and thus treated him...
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So much television is produced nowadays it’s impossible to keep track of everything that comes out. Between the usual network and cable content and the ten thousand or so streaming services that...
