Elizabeth Rush – The Guardian Sea level rises are not some distant threat; for many Americans they are very real. In an extract from her chilling new book, Rising, Elizabeth Rush details how the US coastline will be radically transformed in the coming years In 1890, just over…
By Dexter Filkins* – The New Yorker For a time, it looked as if Turkey’s battered democracy might pull off an improbable revival in Sunday’s national elections. With the Turkish economy reeling, the aura of inevitable victory that surrounded President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who…
MANIFESTO* Transforming the Vision of Politics and Geopolitics: From Dominant Power to Co-creating Power Based in 14 countries on four continents, the Dialogues for Humanity Global Network encourages people to confront the causes of oppression while building relationships of…
By Zoë Carpenter* – The Nation The 2,300 children who have been taken from their parents face a tangled legal process and a shortage of lawyers to help them through it On Monday, Border Patrol agents at a detention center in McAllen, Texas, took away the son of a woman from El…
Owen Jones* Criminalising help for refugees is a sign of Viktor Orbán’s growing authoritarianism. Europe cannot afford to ignore it It’s time for the European Union to kick Hungary out.
By BBC Italy says it will seize two migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean, citing doubts over their legal status. Italian authorities said the Lifeline and Seefuchs, operated by the German migrant rescue group Mission Lifeline, were “illegally” flying the Dutch flag.
Yossi Gurvitz* – Mondoweiss** In a rare act, the Presidency of the Knesset (a ten-member group representing most parties) last week disqualified a bill moved by Israeli Palestinian parliamentarians from coming to a debate or vote. The bill in question was named “Basic Law…
by Stephen Johnson – BIG THINK President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that calls for officials to stop separating immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. “We’re going to keep families together but we still have to maintain toughness or our country…
Roberto Saviano* Italy’s minister of the interior is questioning whether I should have police protection. I’m just one of his long list of enemies Living under around-the-clock police protection is a tragedy. Italy has more journalists in this situation than any other western…
TELESUR in English Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to hire more immigration judges and install quotas to accelerate deportations and address the more than 700,000 immigration cases backlogging the judiciary system. “What this means is that judges will have to complete…
