Stargazers are in for a treat Thursday night into Friday morning. The Geminid meteor shower will present a beautiful show of green fireballs hurtling through the cosmos, leaving behind beautiful streaks…
Patricia Gualinga (left), from the Sarayaku community, during the international symposium “Rights of Nature: 10 years after its recognition in the Constitution of Ecuador”, Quito, September 2018. Image: Hugo Pavon/Universidad…
These days, when videos of police go viral it’s usually because they’re using excessive force. So it’s refreshing to see that people cheering an NYPD after he was caught on…
The Maine-native and Harvard-educated Henry Milner Rideout wrote fiction for The Saturday Evening Post in the early 20th century. His elegant, detailed prose depicts the wilderness of his home state…
Frente Amplio supporters. Source: Nueva Sociedad. All Rights Reserved. This article is being published as part of the partnership between Nueva Sociedad and democraciaAbierta. You can read the original here.The spirit…
Image: Nueva Sociedad. All Rights Reserved.As a foreign correspondent put it, on October 7th, the first round of elections in Brazil were won by an authoritarian, racist, machista, homophobic politician:…
It was a bit old-fashioned for a desk chair. It was a long way from new, sitting off to the side in the vendor’s stall, a price tag dangling from…
Republicans and Democrats both feel like “strangers in their own country,” according to a New York Times report. Is it no coincidence that feelings of alienation exist amid the most partisan,…
Linda and I are back from Paris after four days with Emily, our 14-year-old vegan granddaughter. I’m sure you know vegan means no meat, fish, or any animal products whatsoever.…
June 30, 2018, Managua, Nicaragua: a demonstrator deposits flowers to honor the victims of the protests against Daniel Ortega’s government. Photo: Carlos Herrera / dpa / PA Images. All rights…
If you live with anxiety, you might be familiar with some of the seemingly “harmless” but incredibly hurtful things people often say to those struggling with it. Sometimes these “harmless”…
She knocked again at the door. If necessary, she could knock all day. In the 15 years that Eleanor Kappleman had been the president of her condo’s board of directors,…