Theatre can be an extension of journalism, a wonderful platform to explain, warn, make a case, with the added stimulus of live performances and live audiences. These two short, powerful, and important, plays are built around fictional episodes but to drive the point home that they are embedded in fact. Both are introduced by verbatim…

Dubbed “A New Foundation for American Greatness,”  the federal budget proposal for 2018 seeks to achieve faster economic growth and debt reduction. But only $59 billion of that budget has been slated for education—a $9.2 billion cut (13.5 percent) compared to last year. The education budget eliminates or reduces more than 30 programs. The education plan…

At the June Summit, which will take place after the UK Referendum, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, will present the results of her global review of external strategy. As part of the review process, the Human Security Study Group, at the LSE, which is convened by…

Pete Souza, former President Barack Obama’s staff photographer, is well-known for his low-key trolling of President Donald Trump. In March, GOOD first reported on Souza’s totally transparent jabs at the new commander in chief and his administration via his wildly popular Instagram account. Souza’s thinly veiled Insta-jokes included a doctored photo he posted to his…

Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, 2014. Santi Palacios /Press Association. All rights reserved.We welcome the report by the UN Secretary General In Safety and Dignity: Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants and support its recommendation to create a Global Compact for Refugees. It…

In the U.K., the world’s fifth-richest economy, vulnerable children are being denied education. Asylum seekers and refugee children are struggling to access education and are unable to attend school or college, which contravenes rights to equal educational access in accordance with international human rights law. I’m currently working on research projects about child refugees, one of…

At the June Summit, which will take place after the UK Referendum, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, will present the results of her global review of external strategy. As part of the review process, the Human Security Study Group, at the LSE, which is convened by…

On Thursday night, California state senators voted 23-16 in favor of Senate Bill 30, which would blacklist any company contracted by the federal government to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico. As of 2016, the state lay claim to the sixth largest economy in the world, and over 200,000 jobs there rely on commerce, trade, and direct…

Since Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in 1999, the Russian authorities have responded to any threat, whether real or imagined, with repressive legislation. The history of the power vertical is thus one of the methodical restriction of citizen’s rights and freedoms. Meanwhile, Russia’s over-centralised state is increasingly isolating itself from the “multinational people of the…

I always wanted to get married, even when I didn’t. Before I was 4, my mother and father called it quits. By the time I was 8, my mother separated from her second husband, who then skipped town altogether. My early life was marked by the abandonment of men who split when things became too…