Month: March 2019

Catcher Mike Marjama has been preparing for the 2018 Seattle Mariners home opener, but he also has been sharing his private struggle with an eating disorder in a new short documentary film that debuts on LeBron James’ and Maverick Carter’s “Uninterrupted.” In “Marj,” the 28-year-old Roseville, California, native walks through his journey and obsession with making it…

Image: Nueva Sociedad. All Rights Reserved. Five months after his overwhelming victory at the presidential elections, the "fourth transformation" announced by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is underway now that the leader from Tabasco has received the presidential sash in a ceremony carefully designed to reflect that historical moment. He presented a discourse full of…

Click:Journal DIY Set When cancer patients enter surgery, doctors often do not have a complete picture of where and how far tumors have spread. As a result, cancerous cells can be left behind despite surgeons’ best efforts to remove as much as they can. This leads to more surgeries, longer recovery times, and ultimately higher…

President of Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen, and her Head of European Elections campaign Jordan Bardella, Nanterre, France, January 17, 2019. Liewig Christian/ Press Association. All rights reserved. The 2019 European elections are set to see an unprecedented number of far-right parties enter the European Parliament. These parties are for the most part rabidly anti-EU,…

THE GOOD NEWS: A political action committee ran by a former Bill Clinton staffer is taking the NRA to task with an aggressive billboard campaign. The Mad Dog PAC has erected a billboard in Pensacola, Florida, calling the NRA a “terrorist organization.” Claude Taylor, a former staffer in the Clinton White House, heads the committee…

THE GOOD NEWS: One of the nation’s most prominent gun retailers is putting its money where its mouth is, and taking a real stand against gun violence.   After every mass shooting since Columbine in 1999, many have looked to their elected officials to do something about the violence, and they’ve achieved virtually nothing. But after a…

Screenshot: Delegate from Northumberland at Labour Party Conference. It’s great that DiEM25 and DiEMVoice, our arts platform, are here at Central Saint Martins tonight. I’ve been looking at your Creative Unions response to the triggering of Article 50. And I think this call to demonstrate that creativity must operate across borders and boundaries couldn’t be…

Two-time NBA All-Star Baron Davis prides himself on his ability to make connections. After a career as a clutch point guard for the Charlotte Hornets, the Golden State Warriors, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the New York Knicks, Davis has taken his drive to a new arena, becoming a successful serial entrepreneur and…

The iconic green bandana that has become a symbol of the fight for reproductive rights in Argentina. Source: Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved. Latin America is one of the regions in the world that has the strictest policies regarding female reproductive rights. However, we are currently witnessing an unprecedented civil backlash against these restrictions led…

In the nine years since he left office, the George W. Bush presidency hasn’t been regarded very favorably. A recent survey of bipartisan scholars ranks him at 30 out of the 44 men who’ve held the office. And when he left office, the public wasn’t too happy with him either. Bush’s final approval rating was at a staggeringly…