View on Israel-Gaza emerges as rare divide for California’s Senate hopefuls
Barbara Lee is the only candidate in California’s US Senate race calling for a ceasefire. Diplomacy—not destruction—is key to securing lasting peace.
An Alabama woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower
In March 2021, sheriffs in Etowah county, Alabama, arrested Ashley Caswell on accusations that she’d tested positive for methamphetamine while pregnant and was “endangering” her fetus. Caswell, who was two…
Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution
Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in the country’s constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues. Saturday’s voice to parliament referendum failed,…
The case against pets: is it time to give up our cats and dogs?
weird feelings about pet ownership. Read it.
Delta variant Covid symptoms ‘include headaches, sore throat and runny nose’
Researchers warn that UK’s most widely established variant may be mistaken for milder illness
New Zealand to ban most single-use plastics by 2025
The new bans were an important step, but still missed many of the largest producers of plastic waste in New Zealand, said Assoc Prof Terri-Ann Berry, the director of Environmental…
Poetry sales soar as political millennials search for clarity
Andre Breedt, for Nielsen, said that sales were booming because in times of political upheaval and uncertainty, people turn to poems to make sense of the world: “Poetry is resonating…
Syphilis, sex and fear: How the French disease conquered the world
It got its name in the mid 16th century from a poem by a Renaissance scholar: its eponymous hero Syphilus, a shepherd, enrages the Sun God and is infected as…
A woman’s greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself
If what it takes to create are long stretches of time alone, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect {read}
Republicans accused of obstructing satellite research into climate change
The Republican majority in the US Congress has been accused of deliberately obstructing research on global warming after it emerged that a critically important technique for investigating sea-ice cover at…