As I covered last week, Joe Biden is now allowing Americans to go global as genderless beings. From my article: If you and your lady or man were wanting to travel internationally in the near future, you should be aware there are other options. Compliments of the Biden administration, sans salute to sex, you and…Continue Reading

As racism evolves, it seems, so does safety. St. Edward’s University in Texas has offered a course called Basic Self Defense. According to a screenshot reportedly obtained by Campus Reform, learning materials include the video “Don’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks.” The how-to — produced by the Barnard Center for…Continue Reading

The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings regarding Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court have been proceeding apace. Earlier today, the Committee took the vote on sending the nomination to the full Senate. The Committee, comprised of 11 Democrats and 11 Republicans (reflecting the 50-50 Senate), voted along party lines, thus leaving things in…Continue Reading

On Sunday, Hungarian President Viktor Orban won an overwhelming victory and fourth term as president. With six center-left parties united in a single opposition bloc, Orban won 53% of the vote–increasing his majority by four percentage points and a sufficient majority in the Hungarian national assembly to impose changes to the Hungarian constitution. With 98,96% of…Continue Reading

If there’s one thing to be learned from the present moment, it’s just how fickle such calculations can be and how easily the global situation can turn. April 4, 2022 EDITOR’S NOTE:&nbspThis article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.…Continue Reading

On a bright spring day in 1979, before thousands who were propelled to Washington, D.C., by the Three Mile Island reactor meltdown, I pronounced nuclear power’s rapid expansion disastrously unaffordable. My remarks drew on years of work chronicling reactors’ skyrocketing capital costs. Forty-three years later, in February, in the wake of the failed Glasgow climate…Continue Reading

His new film Ahed’s Knee is a shallow cri de coeur against the Israeli state.  March 31, 2022 Nadav Lapid has the uncertain honor of being the most acclaimed Israeli film director. A perennial favorite at festivals around the world, his autobiographical works explore the machismo of the Israeli regime, the moral predicaments of its…Continue Reading

The Indigenous people in Canada who suffered so greatly at residential schools have not waited for the Pope to come to their door. Instead, they have gone to his house, asking to receive an apology, writes Albert Dumont.Last week, Pope Francis apologized for the conduct of some members of the Catholic Church in Canada’s residential…Continue Reading