Last week, the nation’s largest prison and jail telecom corporation, Securus, effectively defaulted on more than a billion dollars of debt. After decades of preying on incarcerated people and their…
The Russian republic of Chechnya has banned dance music it deems either too fast or too slow, in an attempt to quash a “polluting” western influence on the conservative majority-Muslim…
The basic problem with the conservative discourse around “parents’ rights” is that it frames children as chattel—that is, as parents’ property. But—and I can’t believe I even have to say…
‘We don’t care about international law, human rights. We have this rhetoric that we do. But we don’t.” In an interview with Sky News on Thursday, British columnist and political…
the mining conditions in Congo
Colombia's President Petro at the UN General Assembly
This is a segment from Soft Focus with Jena Friedman that never aired
Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk.
This two pieces of media go well together. BBC Discovery “Can Robots Truly Be Intelligent?” and Why do we give robots female names? Because we don’t want to consider their…