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
Today, women hold over two-thirds of America’s trillion-dollar student debt. Each holds, on average, $31,000 in student debt before their career even begins, and because of the persistent gender wage pay gap, it takes years longer for women to pay their debt back. All of these obstacles are growing at a time when women, for…Continue Reading
When it came out last week that the Federal Election Commission fined Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for misreporting political payments in 2016 that funded the explosive Steele dossier, the news attracted plenty of media attention. The penalties themselves, however, had nothing to do with the actual content, creation, or distribution…Continue Reading
Juliette Bryant was at a Cape Town cocktail lounge with a friend when an associate of Jeffrey Epstein approached her. “This guy is bothering me,” the woman, an American actress named Naja Hill, told them that night in September 2002. “Can I hang out with you guys?”Bryant, who had just turned 20, understood that women…Continue Reading
Alex Karpenko plays outside the train station every day.The 27-year-old musician’s ritual, ever since the war began, is to carefully make his way down to the public piano outside Lviv’s railway station. There, he plays off the thousands of Ukrainians fleeing their homes. People walk past him, rolling suitcases or carrying children. Some of them…Continue Reading
Scientists agree the universe is expanding. Scientists disagree how fast the universe is expanding.The argument over the Hubble Constant–the scientific law defining that expansion rate–is heating up. But this isn’t just some nerdy squabbling in the ballroom of whichever hotel is hosting the latest astrophysical symposium.No, our entire conception of how the universe works is…Continue Reading
For the first time since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Southern state lawmakers can once again redesign election districts without federal oversight.That means several GOP-dominated legislatures can shape state and congressional voting maps without first seeking approval from the U.S. Department of Justice or the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C. Without…Continue Reading
Herry Wirawan, center, the principal of a girls Islamic boarding school accused of raping several of his students, is escorted by security officers during a sentencing hearing at a district court in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on February 15, 2022. The court sentenced Wirawan to life in prison for raping at least 13 students between…Continue Reading
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen talk “Renegades” Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen talk “Renegades” 09:31 Washington — The Biden administration is taking action Tuesday designed to fix what’s become known as the “family glitch” in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the nation’s health care law. Under the current law, families may only obtain health insurance through…Continue Reading
Bucha, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned to speak Tuesday to U.N. Security Council diplomats outraged by growing evidence that Russian forces deliberately killed civilians, many of them shot in yards, streets and homes, and their bodies left in the open. The Russian withdrawal from towns around Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, revealed the corpses, which…Continue Reading
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