On Saturday, women and men across the globe stepped out in solidarity for the American public who did not vote for Donald Trump. It wasn’t just a few light protests here and there, but rather a worldwide fist raised high in the air, exclaiming to all who would listen that millions around the globe will…
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Assad’s rational brutality
Picture from “The Banners of Occupied Kfar Nabel” page on Facebook. Amnesty International’s report on mass hangings is a harrowing reminder of Assad’s tyranny. Torture, sexual violence, attacks on medical facilities, and murder and atrocities are all components of a calculated brutality that has killed hundreds of thousands, displaced millions, and caused untold misery. The…
Canadian Soccer Players Form Union To Fight For Fair Wages
As the U.S. women’s national soccer team continues its battle for fair pay, its rivals north of the border just took a major step toward securing proper compensation of their own. In a meeting in Toronto on Thursday, Canada’s top players officially created the Canadian Women’s National Soccer Team Players’ Association. It is believed to be the country’s first union for…
Raqqa writes back
This is my sixth letter to you since we started our correspondence last October and while I know that you, in the relative safety of western Baghdad, do not share my views, at least our old friendship allows us to continue to write. You ask again after my brother and I remember that when I…
Turkey and the Armenian genocide: the next century
Dark heritage: a derelict Armenian church in Diyarbakir. All photos courtesy of the author. Most of the coverage of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide has concentrated on the Turkish government’s continuing refusal to recognise the organised massacre of over 1m Armenians as such. The centenary has arrived and the US has once again…
How Reddit Became The Internet’s Therapist
Two years ago, Max Stolfe was in a dark place. He had just transferred to a new college in New York, and he was struggling to keep up with the workload. He had, by his own account, one friend. After years in and out of therapy, he didn’t have much to show for it, and…
The five poverties of inequality
Poverty in Medellin, Colombia. Luis Pérez/Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved. Inequality is the worst kind of poverty, because inequality is precisely what causes it. Measuring poverty and allocating budget lines in the absence of public policies against inequality is like applying a tourniquet below the wound. According to the OECD, $ 134 billion in official…
GOOD Advice From Good People: Eileen Fisher Shares Her Advice On Balancing Business And Family
Eileen Fisher is the founder of one of the most influential clothing brands in the world, so she knows a thing or two about sustaining a business. Her challenge: starting a family at the same time as beginning her business. Here, she tells you how to do both. Eileen Fisher shares advice on balancing work and…
A Syrian’s view of Europe
Credit: Yana Zalesskaya. All rights reserved.I live in Germany now. I have a bicycle, an address and everything, and some wonderful neighbours. We talk in English and they teach me German words. On my first day here, my uncle, a German citizen, said to me, “look after this society, it will look after you in…
Bryant Gumbel Just Pointed Out The NFL’s Biggest Problem
Embed from Getty Images The National Football League once again is coming under fire for apparent under-reactions to its players being accused of domestic assault. The latest case involves New York Giants kicker Josh Brown, who the Giants re-signed this past offseason, despite knowledge of a domestic abuse case involving Brown and his…