After weeks of staring at the calendar and trying to ignore the late August date circled aggressively in red, Clara grabbed her keys and jumped in the car. Here, now, in the middle of the grocery store, she was finally taking action. Clara knew that staying on task was what would save her. She clutched…
Month: March 2019
Dangers of vaccine hesitancy: where does the EU stand?
Shutterstock/Montebasso. All rights reserved.While the World Health Organisation warns of major measles outbreaks spreading across Europe, vaccination has stepped into national and EU political debate as a major health issue. Looking at the 2018 Italian general election, some candidates scrambled to deliver a clear position on this matter. Adopted last summer, a new Italian law on vaccines introduced 10 mandatory…
A 12-year-old journalist was threatened by law enforcement for reporting a story, but she knew her rights.
Twelve-year-old journalist Hilde Lysiak is a reporter and the founder of the Orange Street News. She gained national attention at the age of nine after being the first reporter on the scene at a murder in her neighborhood and beating her local paper to the scoop. Lysiak, the youngest member of the National Society of Professional Journalists, is…
“Screwtape Proposes A Toast” by C.S. Lewis
Written in 1959 by C.S. Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) of The Chronicles of Narnia fame, “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is a follow-up to his very popular Screwtape Letters. It is among the most creative pieces of fiction in the last century. Screwtape is a demon who schemes to bring more souls…
Marching with Dabrowski – what the centenary of Polish Independence can tell us about the radical right?
Click:NBA直播live November 11, 2018, Warsaw – celebrants of National Independence Day centenary marching with a banner of Polish national symbol. Attila Husejnow/ Press Association. All rights reserved. Some weeks ago, an articleby Aleksandar Hemon instigated an interesting debate about the merit of ceasing all ties with those who consider themselves nationalists, equating them with fascists. However,…
Net Neutrality Is Dead For Now But Here’s Why The Fight Isn’t Over
Say goodbye the equality of the internet. On June 11, the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality regulations went into effect. Previously, internet service providers (ISPs) were required to offer equal access to all web content. Now, ISPs are allowed to block websites or charge for higher-quality service or specific content. They can also push consumers…
Hard Lesson
“Of course, it’s different for underwear,” the professor said as she hobbled around the desk. “If you happen to be confronted by your assailant while you are dressed only in your nightclothes — which happens more often than you would think …” and she paused a moment there, a wistful gleam in her eye. “Anyway,…
Rising roar of faux faith in poll-bound India
A rural temple in South India, painted stone as deity. If you hear the rising roar of faith, it is election-time in India. Belief in God is stronger than any political belief. Faith rushes to fill ideological vacuum and goes on to cleanse politics of its residual ideological content. Religious fervour, injected into a…
The King of Dauphin Island
Marcus Weems was the sixth-richest man in the state of Alabama, but he lost his wife to cancer like everybody else. Of course he brought the full leverage of his affluence to bear on her condition — Sloan Kettering, Johns Hopkins, M.D. Anderson, names of hospitals like the board of directors for some conglomerate of…
Venezuela is now a regional crisis
Refugees in a camp in Colombia, Source: Wikimedia Commons In April 2017 the Venezuelan opposition began a major campaign of street protests against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. For four months, riot police and the National Guard clashed almost every day with thousands of protesters on the streets of Caracas and other Venezuelan cities….