Voice of America staff sue Trump administration for shutting down network

Staff at the government broadcaster Voice of America have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, which put nearly 900 employees on leave and froze funding last week. BONNI

What we know about the case of detained Georgetown professor Badar Khan Suri

Healy Hall, the flagship building of Georgetown University's main campus in Washington, D.C., is seen in 2011. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

Peter Thiel and other technocrats surrounding Donald Trump

Last week Derrick Broze, co-founder of The Conscious Resistance Network, published a video warning of the technocratic tendencies of people who surround US President Donald Trump. In the video below, Broze walks us through how Trump’s secon

What Earth Supplies and What We Need: Carrying Capacity as a Guide for Regional and Planetary Governance and Sustainability

Learning our Way Forward The world order is changing before our eyes (Allan 2018, 29-74, 263-284). During the postwar era, nations specialized in measuring Gross Domestic Product, a standard adopted by neoliberalism and globalization to bol

Farming at the Top of the World

Ed note: The piece below is reposted with permission of the author. As glaciers melt upstream, Pamiri farmers are engaged in regenerative agriculture and saving seeds, while strengthening their culture and biodiversity. Tajikistan’s Pamir M

The Evolution of Modernity

The human world of the early 21st century is dominated by science, cities, and high technology. However, both our modern way of life and our way of thinking about the world sprang up only within the past several centuries. Today’s humans ar

Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner embraces melancholy in new album

"When people grieve or go through a great loss, there are just ugly parts that come out of people when they're in survival mode," Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner told NPR, reflecting on the complicated relationships behind her new albu

Compromised integrity: Medical professionals failed to uphold ethics and freedoms during Covid

The covid pandemic exposed the ease with which democratic societies can abandon ethical principles and human rights under collective fear, with a response driven more by authoritarian impulses than science. The medical profession failed to

European military leaders discuss Ukraine peacekeeping force

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to a Canadian Lt Colonel as he visits a military base to meet planners mapping out next steps in the Coalition of the Willing in Northwood, London on Thursday.

Ending Racism Means Addressing Its Historic Legacies

Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the 60th anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It is a day all governments should recommit to

Zimbabwean millennial Kirsty Coventry gets Olympic top job

Kirsty Coventry reacts after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025.

UK court finds men who stole $6 million gold toilet guilty

Have you seen this toilet? WILLIAM EDWARDS/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption It turns out that a porcelain throne can also be made of gold.

Federal Lawsuit Challenges Oregon’s Psilocybin Program Over Disability Discrimination

A landmark federal lawsuit is challenging Oregon’s Psilocybin Services Program, alleging that its strict regulations discriminate against individuals with disabilities. Filed by four licensed psilocybin facilitators, the lawsuit, Cusker v.

Hamas fires first rockets since Israel broke recent ceasefire

Editor's Note: Images contain graphic content or scenes of death. Fayez Abu Halima, 39, (right) and his brothers cry over the body of their mother killed in Israeli airstrikes on homes in northern Gaza's Beit Lahia. He tell

Farmers of La Via Campesina: we globalise struggles and hope!

What is it like to farm in the EU? What are the forces at stake behind liberal farming policies? Where do the narratives of right and left farmers’ unions intersect and diverge? What is the current state of debates on fair prices, food sove