Greek coast guard officer tries to calm Syrians who are part of the the largest refugee flow the continent has seen since World War II.Thanassis Stavrakis / Press Association. All rights reserved. The refugee and migrant crisis is a highly sensitive political topic in the European Union. Commentators use different terminologies. Many European media outlets,…
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While You Were Looking At Bombs, Trump Quietly Changed Obamacare
Over the last few weeks, the United States has fired more than 50 Tomahawk missiles into Syria in an attempt to send a message to its president, Bashar al-Assad, dropped the “mother of all bombs” on Afghanistan to smoke out an ISIS stronghold, and is now threatening a preemptive strike against North Korea if the small,…
Film review: a Syrian love story
The film opens with shots that could be of a holiday, in a Syria long destroyed. The filmmaker, Sean McAllister (The Liberace of Baghdad, The Reluctant Revolutionary), is in Syria in 2009, visiting as part of a state initiative to drum up tourism. But he is looking for “gritty” stories, the real struggles of real…
The Rate Of Child Marriages In America Is Alarming
Child marriage, most Westerners would assume, happens only in far-flung countries where women’s rights—let alone rights for children—are a foreign concept. Most Americans would be shocked to learn that legal marriages between adolescent girls as young as 12 and adult men happen on our own democratic turf—and they’re happening right now. It’s true that most…
Tunisia: the irresistible flow
Celebrating Revolution Day in Tunisia. Demotix/ Chedly Ben Ibrahim. All rights reserved.“Out of the revolution and counter-revolution…was born the dialectical movement and counter-movement of history which bears men on its irresistible flow, like a powerful undercurrent, to which they must surrender the very moment they attempt to establish freedom on earth.” Hannah Arendt, On Revolution…
5 Extraordinary Grammy Moments People Are Still Talking About
Sunday night’s celebration of the 59th Grammy Awards was filled with jaw-dropping moments. From solidarity with Senator Elizabeth Warren to a straight-up protest of President Donald Trump by A Tribe Called Quest, the myriad emotions spilled by our stars had people talking well after the performances were over. Sure, the Grammys didn’t shirk the political…
On centrism and independence in Spain
Colmenas» de la M-30 (Madrid, 1953). Flickr/Alvaro Ibáñez. Some rights reserved. After the regional elections I’m done with extremes. Extremes never reflect the complexity of reality. Reality is much more radical than the purity of ideals. Reality is always a mix. Even so, electoral politics – like sport – is still a space for the…
A Surf Camp For The Gay Community Grows In Brazil
This week, a group of surfers will hit the beach in Florianópolis, Brazil, for what’s known amongst participants as “gay surf camp.” This year’s retreat may be the most important yet—and the reason has little to do with the swells. “Now that we’re facing huge setbacks in LGBT rights both here in Brazil and in…
Love versus fear
Credit: Stephen D. Melkisethian. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. This morning I woke up and made breakfast for my daughter, and thought to myself: we have entered the age of terror. Terror is not new to the USA. Terror—the infliction of extreme fear—runs deep in our economy and political system, from the enslavement of African…
A New Database Helps Women Find Reproductive Health Care Outside Their Hometowns
Click:ARCOTRONICS MKP 1.44/A GPD/LS SH 14152465 Capacitor Procuring reliable reproductive health care can be a difficult task under the best of circumstances. Factor in increasing political restrictions on basic health care and the unfamiliarity of traveling to a new area and the search can seem like more trouble than it’s worth; a circumstance which ultimately…