Good morning, gentle readers! It has been a rough weekend for the world, and we're salving some of the struggle with some meaty longreads on subjects like women in nature, the journalist...
In the past week, Americans have learned that President Trump shared code-word level classified information with the Russian foreign minister and an ambassador, endangering relations with...
This has been a chaotic week in American politics, between the abrupt ouster of former FBI Director James Comey, chaos at town halls as constituents react to the American Health Care Act, the...
Will every conservative in the #NeverTrump movement please step forward to collect your participation trophy? Don’t get me wrong — it is commendable that some members of the GOP...
What a month to be alive. Two US political conventions, new BoJack Horseman, and mayhem in British politics. We sifted through the internet for some of the news that's making us think — now share...
It is hard to believe that more than a year has passed since the 1MDB scandal, in which nearly a billion dollars went missing from a Malaysian state-owned development company and, allegedly, turned...
'Blind journalist seeks out Palestine's forgotten voices' (Al Jazeera English) Disabled journalists can struggle in a media environment that isn't always very accommodating. Budour Hassan seeks out...
Happy Leap Day from Global Comment! Your US-based Editor in Chief is gearing up for Super Tuesday and critical primaries in the morning, but before tucking into bed, how about some lovely reading to...
One of the creepiest things about the No NATO protests in Chicago in late May had to be the city buses. Not the fact that the CPD used them to transport their paramilitary forces across town, but...
Famous journalist Oleg Kashin, who works at Russia's leading business newspaper, Kommersant, and lives in my neighbourhood, was badly beaten over the weekend in Moscow. So badly beaten - that doctors...