Islamic State: more popular than you think
A recent Al-Jazeera Arabic online poll shatters the dominant narrative that the Islamic State enjoys the support of only an isolated fraction of Arab Sunnis. Even considering the demonstrated online…
Worthy Cause Countdown: This Tiny Colorado Town Needs $759 For Volleyball Equipment [UPDATED]
NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: THIS GOAL HAS BEEN MET! BUT YOU CAN GIVE TO ANOTHER WORTHY CAUSE HERE. From December 14 through December 25, GOOD Sports will feature the worthiest school…
Demanding justice in Angola
Rafael Marques de Morais. Alex Brenner for Index on Censorship. All rights reserved.Mass graves of miners who were buried alive, women with their eyes and genitals cut out of their…
Here's How Many People Just Got Kicked Off Welfare For Testing Positive For Drugs
Trying to find a way to toss away perfectly good, hard cash? How about starting an initiative to test whether welfare recipients are using drugs. A year-long Michigan study of three…
A dilemma for Podemos
Pablo Iglesias with new mayor of Madrid,Ahora Madrid candidate Manuela Carmen. Demotix/ Jose Hinojosa. All rights reserved.A reader of the international press could be forgiven for thinking the May 24…
Your Favorite Farmers Market Food Might Be a Scam
Joe Newton fancies himself a real sharp customer. By shopping at the Grand Army Plaza farmers market in Brooklyn, this wry, thoughtful graphic designer is actively avoiding veggies “that are…
Here Is The Most Kick-Ass Way (Literally) To Fight Anxiety And Other Mental Health Disorders
To the uninitiated, Brazilian jiu jitsu would seem like a terrible activity for a person with anxiety. After all, the grappling-based martial art looks like it’s comprised of people simulating…
Gisele Took To Instagram To Assure The World Neither She Nor Tom Brady Voted For Trump
Last night at a rally in New Hampshire, Donald Trump pulled out the time-tested strategy of appealing to voters by playing to their hometown sports allegiances. In this instance, he…
Subverting neoliberal slavery: migrant struggles against labour exploitation in Italy
Destruction by fire of the Gran Ghetto in Puglia. Liminal geographies. Some rights reserved.…we cannot tell from contemplation of any object in the supermarket what conditions lay behind its production…
When Celibacy Is Better Than Sex
In the summer of 2015, I lived in New York and juggled three lovers. One of them was a kinky Tibetan Buddhist who told me he that he’d been celibate…
Saudi Arabia’s big mistake in Yemen
Houthis in San'aa. Luke Somers/Demotix. All rights reserved.The recently crowned King Salman of Saudi Arabia has taken a major gamble by launching ‘Operation Decisive Storm’, a campaign of air strikes…
The Most Extraordinary, Ordinary Medical Procedure
Though conditions such as hernias or bone fractures may not capture the imagination quite the way deadly outbreaks do, more people die each year from lack of surgical intervention than…