As U.S. livestock farming becomes more industrial, it is changing rural life. Many people now live near concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) — large facilities that can house thousands of…
In April 2018, President Donald Trump welcomed roughly 200 U.S. Olympians and Paralympians from the Pyeongchang Winter Games to the White House. During an address to the athletes, he made a…
Bristol, 2014. Flickr/ Evgeni. Some rights reserved.Tariq Modood, Bhikhu Parekh, Nasar Meer and Varun Uberoi and other scholars associated with the University of Bristol’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity…
Not very long ago, Hoban Cordell moored on the beach at Voter-Gunknut and demanded to speak to the man in charge. The man in charge was a woman named Ani,…
To celebrate Ray Bradbury’s 90th birthday we are reprinting “The Happiness Machine,” a story that was printed in his 1957 novel Dandelion Wine. This tale of discovery follows a determined…
Indigenous Women/Daniel Ortega. Beverly Goldberg.Nicaragua has been saturating the news lately following an outburst of violence and repression as a consequence of increasing social unrest in one of the poorest…
If we're to believe the self-help aisle of every '90s bookstore, men and women talk and act so differently because we're really from two opposing planets. While that's not factually accurate,…
I wasn’t exactly happy with Jim wanting to change his name to Anatoly, but I tried to roll with it. Change is good in a relationship, right? That was the…
Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan. Polling officers with army soldiers,deployed to polling stations. July 26, 2018. Rana Sajid Hussain/ Press Association. All rights reserved.Democracy is in the news in a Pakistan that has held…
On Monday August 20, President Trump complimented a Hispanic man, but of course, he found a way to make it racist. At a White House event billed as “Salute to…
Jerry stuffed a tray of dirty dishes onto an overcrowded utility cart then rounded the corner to Mildred’s room. “Hi, gorgeous,” he sang cheerfully. “How’s my girl today?” Millie lifted…
Dozens of young people lived in the Hambach forest to protect it. Photo: WDR"We can either change the values of our civilization, or let the Earth go on without us."…