On Wednesday, the Illinois House signed the Equal Rights Amendment over four and a half decades after it was passed by Congress. Only one more state...
On Thursday evening, Italy’s two main populist parties were given permission to go forward with their project of creating a fully-populist government. Last week, the two...
Good news for environmental conservationists: a new survey shows that the number of critically endangered African mountain gorillas has now risen to over 1,000. They have...
Rohingya Muslims, sometimes described as the world’s most persecuted minority, make up an ethnic group of about 1.1 million people that lived in the majority Buddhist...
As part of its response to the militarization of Chinese man-made islands in the South China Seas, the United States ramped up ‘freedom of navigation’ operations...
Puerto Rico experienced far more damage from Hurricane Maria than we could have predicted. The Category 5 hurricane, which hit in September 2017, wreaked havoc on...
As part of his protectionist strategy, President Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose heavy import tariffs on Chinese goods entering the United States. This, of course,...
A tweet by post-White House spokesman Jim McGrath on May 27th revealed that former Republican president George H.W. Bush had been hospitalized for low blood pressure and...
The presence of United States warships in the South China Seas has aggravated Chinese officials enough so that a spokesman for the Defense Ministry has called...
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) has responded negatively to a recently-proposed bill that would make the filming and recording of on-duty Israeli soldiers illegal, stating that...