Theresa May became the UK’s prime minister today (July 13) and she immediately got to work. Among her first duties? Creating a cabinet-level position to oversee the country’s exit from the European Union.
Earlier this year Yale University considered changing the name of its Calhoun College, named after John C. Calhoun, a slaveholder and advocate for white supremacy, in a bid to address its discriminatory history. Instead it decided to keep the name as a reminder of a disturbing element of Yale’s history.
The Republican National Convention is scheduled to take place on July 18 to 21. At its height, on July 21, when the party is scheduled to officially nominate its presidential candidate, the conservative channel Fox News will air an ad produced by a collection of LGBT organizations, aimed at educating the public on the dangers transgender people may face when forced to use the wrong bathroom.
Nearly 3,000 people died trying to reach Europe from Africa in the first half of this year, announced the International Organization for Migration (OIM) on July 8. In the same period last year, the death toll was about 1,800.
At least five policemen died on the evening of July 7 in Dallas, Texas, after 11 were shot by several snipers during a Black Lives Matter protest against the recent police killing of black citizens in Louisiana and Minnesota.
It only takes a couple of hours from Mumbai to reach the land of the Warlis. One of India’s many ancient tribes, they live along the Maharastra-Gujarat border. They are easily identifiable through their art, depicting stylized figures walking in whirlpools, dancing, and working in the fields with animals.
After the disturbing deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of law enforcement officers this week, racial bias and police brutality have once again become heated subjects in the US. Several online commenters have noted that the safety of black Americans doesn’t seem to have improved much since Jim Crow laws were struck down in 1965. In fact, US police seem to be killing more black citizens today than were lynched at the height of US segregation.
An asylum seeker in Italy was killed on Tuesday, June 5, after responding to racist insults against his wife.
The halo over Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is a rare bright spot amid the political turmoil sweeping the globe. While US presidential candidate Donald Trump deals in sexist soundbites, Trudeau makes women swoon with his three-word explanation for bringing gender balance to his cabinet. For each of Brexiteer Nigel Farage’s xenophobic speeches, there’s Trudeau, photographed hugging Syrian refugees in Canada.
One thing svelte Italians get asked a lot by foreigners is how they manage to live surrounded by such nice food without being overweight. The answer has long been linked to the wondrous Mediterranean diet, with its emphasis on fresh fruit and vegetables, fish, and olive oil.
Just a day after terrorists attacked a café in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Istanbul’s airport on June 28, Islamic State (ISIL) has claimed to be behind another deadly attack in central Baghdad, Iraq, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
Disney princess culture has been derided for peddling the notion that happiness for girls comes in the form of a prince (whether charming or a beast), and sending the message that girls are best seen but not heard.
On top of all the physical inconveniences of having a period, there also is a financial toll. The cost for tampons and pads, which arguably can be categorized as necessities, amounts to a regressive tax on women around the world.
As the UK hurtles headfirst toward its June 23 referendum on a possible exit from the European Union, camps both for and against are neck and neck: according to the latest figures, 44% of Britons say they’ll vote Remain, while 43% Britons say they’ll vote Leave. Those who’d vote to remain in the EU have the backing of most UK and world leaders, intellectuals, artists, celebrities—but who cares?
Child care in the US is so expensive that it’s making American parents unhappy. In some states, the average cost of having an infant under four in full-time childcare can be more than half a single parent’s income (pdf, p.27). In Massachusetts, for instance, where the median annual income for a single parent is under $26,000, the average cost of sending an infant to a child care facility is over $17,000.
With one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe, Italy is no country for job seekers. Especially if you’re Italian.
In Palermo's historic Ballarò market, immigrants are doing what locals couldn't — pushing back against Cosa Nostra, one bargain at a time
A safe and accessible abortion is a human right and, in the US, a right protected by the Constitution. But this hasn’t stopped abortion rights from coming under constant attack, as evidenced most recently by Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.
After making multiculturalism an official policy and nominating a cabinet that’s half-female, Canada is seeking new heights in inclusiveness. The country’s House of Commons voted today (June 15) to rewrite its national anthem as gender-neutral, according to Reuters.
For the past two days, world leaders have gathered in Norway for the annual Oslo Forum, the world’s most important retreat for conflict mediation.
I am not an outstanding cook, but I can make a decent meal, which is my birth right as an Italian.
About six months ago, as the scale and seriousness of the Zika pandemic was starting to sink in, a concerning link emerged between Zika and a serious neurological condition, Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS).
Mostly due to its strong Roman Catholic tradition, Ireland was, up until 2013, the only large Western country to completely outlaw abortion. Now it allows for the sole exception of procedures necessary to save a woman’s life. This means that even if the pregnancy is the result of a rape or incest, or the baby has serious congenital problems, a woman does not have a choice to have an abortion.
Whether or not they follow politics, it’s fair to assume most people don’t actually read electoral programs. Podemos, Spain’s growing leftwing party, which got nearly 21% of the votes in last year’s elections, doesn’t think that’s good, so it adopted an unusual marketing approach to tackle that problem: it printed the program as an Ikea catalogue (pdf, link in Spanish).
