Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill / Creative Commons For Immediate Release (DOJ) / 04.04.2016 Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Statement on Agreement with BP to Settle for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Following the order today by U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to enter the consent decree settling United States of America v. BP Exploration[…]
Coffee and Tea at Droptop Cafe, Seoul / Creative Commons By Joyce Lee and Hooyeon Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s coffee shop craze is frothing over. In fashionable retail and commercial districts of southern Seoul, nearly one in every two buildings boasts a coffee shop – evidence of a boom that has delivered dizzying[…]
CommonDreams.org / Creative Commons By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) / 04.04.2016 – The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the handling of last month’s presidential nominating contest in Arizona’s most populous county, citing complaints of exceedingly long lines at polling places with high levels of minority voters. The Justice Department’s civil rights[…]
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the method all states use to draw their legislative districts, rejecting a conservative challenge that could have given more clout to white, rural voters. The eight justices rebuffed a[…]
WHY SO MANY AMERICANS THINK THEY’RE #BLESSED Feeling blessed? Nick Lehr/The Conversation Dr. Joseph P. Laycock Associate Professor of Religious Studies Texas State University Last month, my colleagues and I were moved by a beautiful and tragic New York Times editorial by Kate Bowler, a religion professor from Duke Divinity School who was recently diagnosed[…]
In this March 5, 2004 file photo, a man walks along a path lined with elm trees in Princeton, N.J.. The recent spring-like weather has a big downside for allergy sufferers: Tree buds, the first being elms… (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer, File) From Seth Borenstein (AP) with The Seattle Times / 04.04.2016 Man-made global warming is[…]
Remains of the Via Appia in Rome, near Quarto Miglio Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons By Mary Harrsch Ancient Times Back in 2007 I saw this nice travel piece about the Via Appia. I had hoped to see the sights listed when I visited Rome in October 2007. I planned to take the relatively new hop-on-hop-off[…]
\ Bigstock By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.04.2016 Mary Kane recently reported in The Washington Post, following the release of the Oscar-winning film Spotlight, on a grand jury report detailing the sexual assault of children by at least fifty priests and teachers in Pennsylvania’s Altoona-Johnstown Diocese, representing a population of less than 100,000. Kane wrote[…]
Illustration by Jack D. By Richard Eskow / 04.04.2016 If you’re interested in inequality, social justice and the future of democracy, then you should definitely read this book,” proclaims rock star economist Thomas Piketty in his introduction to Gabriel Zucman’s book The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens. Only 28 years old,[…]
Reuters/Mario Anzuoni By Brian McNair / 03.27.2016 Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication Queensland University of Technology Donald Trump, the bastard! Not only has he offended Muslims, Mexicans, women, the pope, his president, peaceful protesters at his increasingly fascist-style rallies, the residents of Brussels and reasonable opinion in general, he’s gone and ruined one of[…]
CommonDreams.org / Creative Commons WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing leaked documents (#PanamaPapers) from a Panama law firm involving offshore financial arrangements of global politicians and public figures for potential evidence of corruption, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Earlier on Monday, the White House said it could not specifically comment[…]
Some of the secular writers killed in recent years in Bangladesh. From top left clockwise: Faisal Arefin Dipan, Shafiul Islam, Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, Ahmed Rajib Haider, Avijit Roy, Ananta Bijoy Das, and Niloy Neel. Six secular Bangladeshi writers have been killed since November of 2014: Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam, literary publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, and[…]
Photo by Phil Roeder / Creative Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.04.2016 Sen. Bernie Sanders is eyeing a victory in tomorrow’s Wisconsin primary as several polls have him surging in the lead. Results from six polls during the past week are in consensus that he is currently the favored candidate. The Emerson College poll[…]