As the national election withered from an upbeat celebration of Hillary Clinton into a stark realization that Donald J. Trump would be our next president, fear and sadness have saddled…
Social psychologists say that most of us are liars, at least a little bit. In our “post-truth” era—one in which the president-elect feels comfortable lying about statements he’s made before audiences…
Ben Hooper is not your average person. The former policeman has spent years competing in triathlons and open-water swims, sometimes up to 40 km in one day. But there are…
Eleven years ago this week, the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq fell as United States troops and marines occupied Baghdad and headed north towards Mosul. The war seemed over. Afghanistan…
Jonah Field, USA, where shale-drilling/hydraulic fracturing is heavy,and a dense web of roads, pipelines and well pads have turned continuous forests and grasslands into fragmented islands. Bruce Gordon/EcoFlight/Flickr. Some rights…
Jayma Bazaar in Osh city, Kyrgyzstan, looks like any ordinary Central Asian market. Built largely of metal containers, running for over a kilometre, it criss-crosses the Ak-Bura river that divides…
Upperclass vs underclass Safari in Stockholm.Feb 2012.A new action plan against extremism by the government wrongly suggests that a number of extra-parliamentary movements are prone to violence. In doing so,…
I have been out for two days to you. As I write this, that’s less than 48 hours. You have been kind and jovial and accepting thus far. I appreciate…
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…
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…
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…
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…