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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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,…