Supporters of NHS workers in Trafalgar Square, London, on May 1, 2023 as members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Unite union continue their strike action in a dispute over pay. The […]
BY THOMAS KNAPP Photograph Source: Roger Higgins – Public Domain The case, many say, is long closed. It’s been 70 years since the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of spying for the Soviet […]
BY JULIA GLEDHILL – WILLIAM D. HARTUNG Photo by Erwan Hesry On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government’s debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was — surprise, surprise! — […]
BY KATHY KELLY Photo Credit: Hellenic Coast Guard Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan couple, Frishta and Mohammad, and their […]
BY DAVID SCHULTZ Photograph Source: Chad Davis – CC BY 2.0 Two recent reports describe challenges for policing specifically for Minneapolis and Minnesota more generally. The first report was the Department of Justice’s Report on policing in Minneapolis which […]
BY PETER BACH The Shipwreck by JMW Turner. (1805). Intent and sincere, former actor and later politician Glenda Jackson, who died last week after a short illness aged 87, was a neighbour of sorts. Our hearts […]
BY KARY LOVE It does appear America has gone insane. Kids shoot up their schools and kill their classmates. Other kids steal Kias and Hyundais and drive ’em like crazy people, damaging more property and injuring […]
BY NILOFAR SUHRAWARDY Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Notwithstanding the diplomatic importance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit (June 20-24) from the Indian perspective, one is compelled to deliberate on it from […]
BY NORMAN SOLOMON Photograph Source: Cmichel67 – CC BY-SA 4.0 When Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday, the world lost a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful ethos of compassion and resolve. Ellsberg’s renown for openly challenging the mentalities […]
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photo by Alec Favale Artificial intelligence (AI) and how it’s going to change the world is a popular topic of conversation these days. There is concern that it will generate ever-more deceptive imagery that can upend […]