The International Olympic Committee has expanded the power of World Anti-Doping Agency, making it a central authority in the “fight against cheating.” WADA defines doping as the use of prohibited substances and…
The Russian state has tightened its grip on contemporary arts and culture in recent years – most notably via the June 2013 law that criminalises acts which ‘offend’ Orthodox believers.…
Oh boy. What are racists going to do with their future money? First, there was the historically awesome news that Harriett Tubman would be replacing Andrew Jackson on the face…
It’s a sunny winter morning when I meet with Ben Gucciardi outside the Soccer Without Borders office at Oakland International High School, in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood. The school is decorated with colorful…
Blood-red: the material network that is IS is not best understood by parsing its religious discourse. Flickr / Karl-Ludwig Poggemann. Some rights reserved.The first time as tragedy, the second time…
Photo by Aitor Sáez. All rights reserved. This article was originally published for ¡PACIFISTA! Colombia’s Tumaco region has the country’s highest number of coca plantations: 16,920 hectares according to official figures.…
Air strike in Sana'a, Yemen. Ibrahem Qasim/Flickr This article was first published in November 2016.On Saturday 8th October, more than 140 people were killed and over 500 injured when warplanes…
No matter how many photographs of Earth you’ve seen, you’ve literally never seen ones like this. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new GOES-16 satellite has just realized…
Thomas Paine statue, Thetford, Norfolk. Wikicommons/Andrewself. Some rights reserved.‘Government founded… on a system of universal peace, on the indefeasible hereditary Rights of Man … interests not particular individuals but…
President-elect Donald Trump is right where he wants to be: at the center of our thoughts. In this edition of “What Did He Just Do?” we find ourselves taken aback…
Looking at the ruins of a building destroyed in airstrikes in Sanaa, capital of Yemen, a day before the second anniversary of the military intervention in Yemen, on March 25,…
We’re only five days into Trump’s presidency (technically three since he took the weekend off), and the new commander-in-chief has already signed executive orders to cripple international health care, suppress evidence…