With the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) assault on Libya’s capital Tripoli continuing after a month, with little serious condemnation from regional or international powers, it seems the conflicts...
Game of Thrones is ending and everyone is really bummed. Game of Thrones is also ending while NOT BEING ABLE TO BE EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE AFTER OUTPACING THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKS AND WADING INTO...
A new wave of arrests targeting the LGBTQ community in Azerbaijan has brought renewed attention to the country’s poor human rights record. On April 1, as many as 15 gay and transgender people were...
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Yesterday, voters in England and Northern Ireland voted in local council elections. The results of local elections are always interesting because people vote differently locally compared to...
Jay Leno, former host of The Tonight Show, came out recently to criticize the current late night scene. Part of his criticisms involved how every late night show is doing the same Trump routine on...
The farmers who had been tending to cows and seeing to paddy fields didn’t stand a chance when the peaceful evening on April 3 was shattered by two military attack helicopters. By the time the...
If you haven’t yet heard of Lizzo—the Minneapolis-based musician, rapper, singer-songwriter, and classically trained flautist—I envy you, but not for the reason you might think. Part of me...
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It is World Immunisation Week and, despite this almost magically effective form of medicine being widely available, especially in the West, and frequently affordable or free, we find ourselves in a...
