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…
Is counter-propaganda the only antidote to propaganda?
Praguers celebrate 23rd anniversary of Velvet Revolution satirical parade. Demotix/ Radim Beznoska. All rights reserved.This fall’s conference – Populism, authoritarianism, and the media: The age of mediocracy and mediacracy –…
Meet The Suffragettes Who Paved The Way For The Historic Women’s March
The Women’s March on Washington erupted over the weekend to the tune of 500,000 protesters with boots on the ground in the nation’s capital. Estimates came in from Los Angeles at…
Trusting the European Union; a Yale debate with recommendations
The various proposals in this article are representative of the deliberations of participating US students in the Democracy Workshop at the European Student Conference hosted at Yale University in February,…
What You Need To Know To Be A Citizen Activist
I worked for Congress for six years, and during that time I learned the power of citizen activism. I met with hundreds of people. Some of them were professional lobbyists…