International News (Page 176)

सपा के सांसद शफीकुर्रहमान बर्क इससे पहले हिजाब को लेकर विवादित बयान दे चुके हैं। उन्होंने बच्चियों को कंट्रोल में रखने के लिए हिजाब को जरूरी बताया था। यूपी से सपा के सांसद शफीकुर्रहमान बर्क ने इस बार अपनी ही पार्टी को लपेटे में ले लिया है। बर्क ने कहा है कि सपा मुसलमानों के…Continue Reading

Whether we care to realize it or not, we’re now in a strange and threatening new world of war. April 8, 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. Excuse me if I wander a little today—and…Continue Reading

The rules are simple: Create a small figure with a banner protesting the invasion, put it in a public place, and upload a photo. April 8, 2022 On a recent snowy day in Moscow, a figure held a poster of a peace sign across the river from the Kremlin. Unlike other protesters, this one was…Continue Reading

Students and alumni of Pennsylvania State University—my school and Pennsylvania’s flagship land-grant institution—recognize that the climate crisis is personal. The Keystone State accounts for nearly 1 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and is expected to warm nearly 6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050, after already sustaining hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure…Continue Reading

Most House Republicans voted against capping insulin costs. Why? They defended the right of greedy capitalists to be greedy capitalists. April 7, 2022 More than 10 percent of Americans are living with diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes, and millions of them need insulin to survive. Unfortunately, because they live in the United States, they are at…Continue Reading

Timely Warning notifications were designed to provide community members with important information during an emergency, but there are unintended consequences. April 7, 2022 On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, over 50,000 New York University students’ phones buzzed at the same time. An identical notification appeared on their screens: “Safety Alert—Shots Fired.” A few minutes later, their…Continue Reading

The Ukrainian port city of Odesa sits atop a labyrinth of catacombs—technically, limestone quarries—which constitute perhaps the world’s largest network of urban tunnels, extending ten stories deep and tracing some fifteen hundred miles beneath the streets. Ever since the nineteenth century, as stonecutters mined the passages to build the city, locals have regarded these voids…Continue Reading

Julia Child was born nearly a hundred and ten years ago, in 1912, in Pasadena, California. Ninety-one years later, after a remarkably eventful life, her body expired, but her fame—her wisdom, her persona, her point of view—kept growing. Child today remains the grande dame of American gastronomy, a towering icon against whom few can compare…Continue Reading

Bourgoin’s story wasn’t so much a house of cards as a total teardown. Some of his lies hardly made sense except in fulfilling his seemingly irresistible desire to become a character in dramas that didn’t concern him. At a talk that he gave to high-school students in 2015, he showed a clip of the interview…Continue Reading