By Susan Babbitt – June 21, 2016
Photo: Bill Hackwell
Some suggest more abstract “theoretical” questions are a luxury. There is no time, given global crises, for such ivory tower work. Yet no less a revolutionary than Fidel Castro said that people suffer because of concepts. (more…)
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai on June 15, 2016
French authorities have begun the mass arrests of protestors taking part in what some are calling the biggest revolution in France for 200 years. (more…)
By Ariela Gross on June 14, 2016
A front page of the St. Louis Missouri Republican newspaper from July 1917.
The massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando was a horrific tragedy. But it was not unprecedented – and it was not the “deadliest mass shooting in American history,” as many have called it. (more…)
By Jack Aponte on Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Op-Ed
I had bad dreams Sunday night. I’m not surprised. A roommate broke the news of the Orlando shooting to my partner and me on Sunday morning; from then on my day was dominated by shock, anger and grief. (more…)
June 16, 2016
(Maan Images/Charlie Hoyle, File)
The Palestinian Prime Minister’s office on Thursday slammed Israel’s decision to cut off water supplies for tens of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank this week as “inhumane and outrageous.” (more…)