While I watch the NBA Finals, I usually have my Twitter app open on my phone, possibly a magazine nearby, and I’​m carrying on half a conversation with the people around me. But this kid crushes me at multitasking. While he watches the NBA Finals, he’​s also playing trumpet in his high school’​s band recital. Maybe…

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras & Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos at parliamentary session in May, 2016, ahead of Eurogroup meeting which might unlock bailout funds. Press Association/Yorgos Karahalis. All rights reserved.This article addresses left-wing critics of DiEM25 who claim that DiEM25 is pursuing the wrong objective (to democratise the EU) by means of a faulty strategy…

Thanks to this week’s litany of Trump controversies—from the repercussions over Comey’s firing to Trump’s admission of leaking classified information and his request to end the FBI’s investigation into Michael Flynn—U.S. stocks have taken a bit of a tumble. According to Bloomberg Markets, the U.S. stock market has dipped to its lowest point since March. By…

Protest at the Snooper's Charter. March 13, 2016. Dominic Lipinski / Press Association. All rights resrved.Britain is responding to terror threats in ways that are likely to increase global insecurity, including in southern countries that face no major terrorist threats, like South Africa. An example of a dangerously inappropriate response is the Investigatory Powers Bill…

The green pavilion, Euronews HQ, Lyon, 2015. Wikicommons/Lydie22.Some rights reserved.At the height of the euro crisis, media coverage didn’t exactly help to find solutions: it aggravated conflicts within the Eurozone instead. The then Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme cites the headlines in the German press in 2010 “where the Greek population on average were described…

Contrary to the current president’s strategy, former president Barack Obama firmly spoke out against racism on Saturday, just hours after neo-Nazis resorted to violence at a protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion,” Obama wrote, quoting former South…

Hussein Malla/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Jabhat al-Nusra’s split from al-Qaeda offers the west a unique and crucial opportunity to create a fully inclusive and strengthened transition in Syria while dividing al-Nusra’s supporters. Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State are the only opposition groups banned from the Syrian peace talks and excluded from the government/rebel…

Whether or not you’re attuned to the ongoing dramas of the Kardashian krew, you’ve likely heard by now that Rob Kardashian (brother to Kim; sock entrepreneur) spent much of his Wednesday posting a series of nude photos, presumably sent to him privately, by his ex-fiancée and mother of his child, Blac Chyna (formerly Angela Renee…

Havana 2016. Flickr/Ken Walton. Some rights reserved.Olga, a former University teacher, remembered her faithful devotion to Fidel Castro when she was growing up in Santiago more than forty years ago. ‘Before the triumph of the Revolution I went to a Baptist private school. After I went to a state school, and I grew disenchanted with…

Is there anything more nerve wracking then watching a skateboarder attempt some gravity-defying maneuver? You’re on edge just thinking about that landing. Well, a group of women turned from anxious spectators to personal coaches as they cheered on and high-fived a total stranger as he tried a series of skateboarding tricks.  They even lent some moral support…