When director Sasha Rainbow heard “Alpha Female,” the latest single from Wild Beasts’ album Boy King, she immediately thought of India where an explosive skateboarding scene is empowering a generation…
Kitchen knives. Meat cleavers. Scissors. Stones. The current weapons of choice used by Palestinians in this latest wave of violence in Israel and the West Bank. At the time of…
One of the most widespread concerns about Trump’s presidency was that his disrespectful attitudes towards women and minorities would foment a permissive culture of misogyny and racism among his supporters. On Saturday, that…
PCSJA members honour those who lost their lives for standing up for peace in Colombia’s civil war. (www.cdpsanjose.org)Last summer – one year after finishing The Power of Staying Put –…
While sports have the power to create barrier-breaking diversity, sports journalism has remained immune. According to a study by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, 88.3 percent of sports…
In the Washington Post last year Michael Semple (former Deputy to the European Union Special Representative for Afghanistan) presented five myths on 'talking to terrorists'. He might have added a…
The heartfelt message behind Shel Silverstein’s 1964 children’s book, The Giving Tree has made its way off the pages and into real life thanks to one Oakland, California, resident. A tree…
FARC´s weapons apprehended by the Colombian authorities. Flickr. Some rights reserved. This year ends with vitally important progress in the negotiation process between the Colombian government and the FARC. On…
The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. Before Le Petit Cambodge, the day after the Paris attacks, November 2015.…
Credit: Mauro Biani (http://maurobiani.it/)/Il Manifesto. All rights reserved.At the end of last year, as politicians and pundits cheered on coalition airstrikes in Syria, I wrote this: “The war on ISIS…
This article originally appeared on Grist. Scott Pruitt, new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, had cozy ties with energy companies while serving as Oklahoma’s attorney general, as The New York Times reported in 2014 and again this…
PT meeting in 2013. Cesar Ogata/Flickr. All rights reserved. At dinner, someone asked the time from the Swiss guard on duty. Looking at his watch and seeing that it had…