By Sarah Jones, September 5, 2018
A Republican plan to restrict food aid could reverse years of progress.
There are… Continue reading
Russian war planes have launched fresh strikes on the Syrian province of Idlib, a monitor says,… Continue reading
“A climate tipping point in the Amazon”, Le Monde diplomatique
By Sam Eaton, Paris, 3 September 2018
Illegal logging and land seizures are driving an ominous yet overlooked trend: tropical… Continue reading
“A Matter of Survival: How to Humanely Solve Europe’s Migration Crisis”, Der Spiegel
By Nicola Abé, Katrin Elger and Fritz Schaap, Berlin, 09/06/2018
Few topics have been as divisive in Europe as the… Continue reading
” How Assad Made Truth a Casualty of War”, The New York Review of Books
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, September 7, 2018
On February 22, 2012, when the British photojournalist Paul Conroy survived the artillery barrage… Continue reading
“Syria war: ‘Russian strikes’ target Idlib as offensive looms”, BBC News
London, 8 September 2018
“U.K. surge in online child sex abuse images stokes global slavery fears”, The Japan Times
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Tokyo, Sep 7, 2018
LONDON – A dramatic surge in the number of online child sex abuse… Continue reading
“Argentina: Raid at school for deaf in clerical abuse probe”, ABC News
By Luis Andres Henao, AP, Sep 6, 2018
Argentine authorities raided a Catholic-run school for youths with hearing disabilities Thursday… Continue reading
“Fifty Years Ago, “Star Trek” Aired TV’s First Interracial Kiss”, Smithsonian Magazine
Matthew Delmont, The Conversation, September 5, 2018
For actress Nichelle Nichols, the first black woman to have a continuing co-starring… Continue reading
“Landmark India ruling ends gay sex ban”, Agence France Presse
Parsis, 6 Sep 2018
India’s Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a ban on gay sex after a decades-old campaign… Continue reading
“Publishing that anonymous New York Times article wasn’t ‘gutless.’ But writing it probably was”, The Washington Post
By Margaret Sullivan, Media columnist, September 6
Was the New York Times’s decision to publish a mystery op-ed piece describing… Continue reading