If you’ve fully adjusted to the app-centric, mobile-obsessed 21st century, then you’ve likely used the mobile payment app Venmo at one point or another. For many, it’s an indispensable debt-settling tool among friends and a godsend for divvying up the check at large birthday dinners. “I’ll just Venmo you” has become the new “Do you…
Aren't we all Guatemala?
Thousands demand the resignation of Otto Pérez Molina. La Opinión. All rights reserved As part of the peace agreements in Guatemala, a United Nations commission was set up on December 12, 2006: the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). Its mission was to assist the Guatemalan government in carrying out criminal investigations and proceeding…
Insight Into Trump’s Dangerous Nuclear Arms Race
With a few notable exceptions, Democratic and Republican presidents alike have generally tried to restrain if not reverse nuclear proliferation since atomic weapons came into existence. But in the era of Donald Trump, that history may count for nothing. President-elect Trump apparently has little time for his country’s fragile nuclear weapons deal with Iran, and…
The OED’s Word Of The Year Won’t Surprise You, But It May Depress You
You probably saw this coming, but here it is. “Post-truth” is the word of the year, according to editors of the Oxford English Dictionary. The term, which is defined as “an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals,” popped up during the campaign for Britain to leave the…
Postconflict in Colombia (12). Public endorsement and legal certainty
Women hold anti-weapon signs during a peace march in Bogotá in 2002. AP Photo/Arima cubillos/All rights reserved The General Agreement signed on August, 26, 2012 between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) – i.e., the roadmap for the current talks in Havana – expressly provides for an unnamed procedure of public…
Here’s How The Media Projects A Presidential Winner
So here we are. Our electoral maps are filled out. Our ballots have been cast. The drinks are poured, the snacks are in place, and the TV’s on. In come the state-by-state projections. And one by one, none of them are retracted. The candidate the media says is going to win actually wins. How do…
How to support Syria
Flickr/Anthony Gale. Some rights reserved.The international ‘Supporting Syria’ conference in London today will serve to burnish yet further Britain’s reputation as an aid-giver. The £1.1 billion spent over the five years of the crisis makes us easily the biggest donor after the United States – more than the European Union and, as British officials like…
On The Ground At Los Angeles’ Anti-Trump Protests
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India falters in battle of ideas with Pakistan
Fahmida Riaz lamented “Turned out you were just like us…” A violent campaign to enforce “nationalism” in India has followed the rise of aggressive Hindu nationalism. The polarisation along religious lines and the defaming of the opposition leaders as sympathisers of the anti-national students and terrorists herald the coming state elections. The consolidation of Hindu…
Trumpian Cocktails To Help You Survive The State Of The Union
Today marks President Trump’s first state of the union address. No matter which side of the political aisle you find yourself on, you could probably use a drink right about now. We asked LA-based artist and mixologist Steph Russ—author of ENERGY: Cocktails to Get You UP— to craft some creative Trumpian cocktails, to commemorate making…