A ruling by South Korea’s Supreme Court in early September upheld a suspended sentence against Cho Hee-yeon, the popular superintendent of Seoul’s Metropolitan Office of Education and a progressive sociologist and civil society leader. Cho...
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Following her landslide victory in Mexico’s June presidential election, Claudia Sheinbaum was officially inaugurated as president on Tuesday. The first woman president in Mexican history, Sheinbaum will be the second president in a row from...
You know what you’re going to get as soon as you hear about Wolfs, an Apple TV+ movie written and directed by Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home)...
Vancouver is the epicenter of British Columbia’s housing crisis and shortage. So why does the city still effectively ban new apartment buildings on most of its residential land, reserving it exclusively for low-density housing? While...
With a sizzle of grease, a McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish slides across the sticky drive-through counter in Homer, Alaska. Before being battered and fried, the fish in this sandwich was likely caught along the state’s rugged western...
The last time members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) shut down ports up and down the East and Gulf coasts, it was 1977, and dockworkers wanted higher wages and greater job security. New technology...
Aurélie Dianara Delors is quite a renowned political figure in France and Europe. When he died at the end of last year, the political and media elite were unanimous in praising him as a great...
In March, Serbian activist Aleksandar Jovanović reported that the Serbian government was poised to hand over the site of the General Staff Building in Belgrade — famously bombed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)...
Amid the rhetorical fog of their game-changing presidential debate in June, Donald Trump and his then opponent, Joe Biden, only dealt with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in passing. Former president Trump claimed that,...
On September 13, Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof held a press conference to announce his new government’s coalition agreement. Essential to these plans — as the coalition’s four right-wing to far-right parties had already agreed...
The rocky American premiere of Megalopolis is a melancholy event for any number of reasons. Mainly because it marks the drastic decline of Francis Ford Coppola’s powers as a filmmaker, and it may turn out...
Sri Lanka elected its first left-wing president on September 21. Anura Kumara Dissanayake received 42 percent of votes cast, in the first test of public opinion since the island state of twenty-two million people became...
