Month: March 2019

Mansplaining is a very serious issue. When women are marginalized by men in professional or public dialogue, it deserves to be called out. Mansplaining also has tiers of offense, and it turns out that some of the most egregious examples are pretty hilarious. In this case, a man on Twitter named Paul Bullen decided to…

Australia’s Yarra Valley has a reputation for wine that’s known around the world. Located about an hour outside of bustling Melbourne, it offers an ideal country escape. But there’s more to the winery region than just vineyards; rolling hills, lush greenery, and wildlife combine to create postcard-worthy views. And as this video shows, sunrise hot…

In 2018, a special “high risk” Guatemalan court condemned four high-ranking military officials to up to 58 years in prison for their involvement in crimes against humanity and aggravated sexual assault against Emma Molina Theissen and the forced disappearance of her 14-year-old brother, Marco Antonio Molina Thiessen. These crimes took place in 1981, at the…

Approximately 4 million women give birth each year in the United States. Most women have some level of fear about labor and birth; it is considered part of the normal experience of childbirth. For some women, that fear may be about whether she and the baby will be healthy. Other women may fear their health…

David “Slag” Miller had no idea what his friend was talking about. The two were sitting on a patch of grass behind old Sara Parker’s house, a tall row of hedges obscuring the train tracks of Lowburg Station in front of them. “You want me to become a mouse?” Slag asked. Chapleton Ratcliffe took another…

As we approach the holiday season, many people will begin planning their end-of-year vacations. Perhaps you’re contemplating a trip to somewhere warm or traveling to see your loved ones. Either way, it’s a good time to start thinking about where you want to go—and how much money you have to spend. Timing is everything when…

Left-wing ex-president of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica. Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved. This article is part of the series "Persistent inequality: disputing the legacy of the pink tide in Latin America" produced in alliance with the Institute of Latin American Studies and at the Instituite of Sociology of the Freie Universität Berlin. There are three sources…

Andy Bryant was only supposed to run for 90 minutes. After all, he was in Albuquerque, running at elevation alongside some of the top middle distance runners in the country. Plus, it was snowing and cold. But when the group reached the turnaround point, he said he wanted to keep going. The 36-year-old from Woodinville,…

Ruta del Sol highway in Colombia / Odebrecht offices Invisibility serves the abuse of power only too well in the continued struggle of ordinary Colombians. Thus, understanding the context of recent astounding events in this nation, post peace-accords, is essential, because it is illustrative of the difficult path to be traversed towards real peace and…

O’Henry walked across the room, took one look at him, and yawned. That was enough for John Lyon. God, he said to himself, even the cat thinks I’m boring. He could no longer avoid it. Three months into retirement, and his life had become a tedious routine. It was the same thing day after day,…