By Karla Loya-Stack* – The Washington Post I have struggled with how to describe or define my identity since moving to the United States from Mexico at age 10—a struggle that was internalized and personal for years. After migrating to the U.S. with my family in…
By Roberto Savio* In a robustly entertaining – and thoroughly informative – book on the lighter side of the United Nations, Thalif Deen, a former UN Bureau Chief and Regional Director for Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency, has just published a book titled “No Comment –…
By Sue Stephenson * – Wall Street International Magazine The entire process of how books are chosen is too secretive considering its societal impact The books we read influence our thinking and our opinions—sometimes for generations. Yet as readers and writers, we know so little…
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Marcelo K. Silva (*) – Boston Review The Brazilian president’s offensive against universities threatens democracy and recalls the dark years of the country’s dictatorship.
By Dino Lencioni* The new edition of this book is entitled The Jerusalem Helix. Imagine an Atheist, a Catholic, a Protestant, a Muslim, a Jew, a Hindu, and a Buddhist who are all part of the same book club.
InsightHungary!!! (*) Several hundred students of the prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts (SzFE) in Budapest occupied a campus building on Monday amid a struggle with the government over the university’s autonomy. SzFE leaders – including the acting rector…
By Paul Jay – theAnalysis.news After three postponed elections, a date is finally set after pressure from protests across the country. Why did Evo step down?
By Jeet Heer* – The Nation A classic horror movie reveals how authoritarianism and scapegoating flourish during a plague None of us are going to the movie theater anytime soon. Fortunately, there are convenient substitutes for cinema addicts, perhaps most readily the streaming…
By Jan Lundius* Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning, on the contrary, every society produces its own specific vulnerabilities. To study them is to understand the importance of a society’s structure, its standard of…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 2020 (IPS) – The United States and 18 other UN member states have come under fire for denying a woman’s legitimate right to “bodily autonomy”—the right to self-governance over one’s own body without coercion or external pressure. The…
