“As a law-abiding citizen, I knew I had done nothing wrong…” By Sevgi Akarçeşme As I stood in the passport line at the airport in Istanbul on the night of March 6, ready to leave Turkey for an indefinite period… Read More ›
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Solar just hit its lowest price ever
Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is planning a massive solar project. By Samantha Page Transitioning to clean energy is the single most important thing we can do to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. Luckily for us, clean energy keeps getting… Read More ›
One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth
Another Earth could be circling the star right next door to us. Astronomers announced on Wednesday that they had detected a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest neighbor to our solar system. Intriguingly, the planet is in the star’s “Goldilocks… Read More ›
Why Is Louisiana Flooding So Badly, And How Can We Prepare For It Next Time?
Setting an unprecedented precedent By Mary Beth Griggs What Happened In Louisiana? Barry Keim, Louisiana State Climatologist and a professor of climatology, can trace the storm back to August 3, when it formed just off the coast of Florida, a… Read More ›
Syria: Aleppo has become a ‘new Srebrenica’
Inhabitants right to see indifference to their destruction as a betrayal By Una Mullally ‘In the 1990s, we said never again,” a UN official recalls. “Aleppo is the new Srebrenica.” After four years of bombardment by government forces, the siege… Read More ›
UN peacekeepers sat around and watched women get raped
JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudanese government soldiers raped dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls last week just outside a United Nations camp where they had sought protection from renewed fighting, and at least two died from their injuries,… Read More ›
Hacked emails released by WikiLeaks hint DNC sought to pave Clinton path to victory vs. Sanders
A top Democratic Party official tried to use Bernie Sanders’s religious beliefs to hurt his presidential campaign, according to a startling internal email. The suggestion of undercutting Sanders based on religion is included in one of 19,252 hacked emails dumped… Read More ›
Vast Purge in Turkey as Thousands Are Detained in Post-Coup Backlash
ISTANBUL — The Turkish government’s crackdown after a military coup attempt widened into a sweeping purge on Monday, cutting a swath through the security services and reaching deeply into the government bureaucracy and political and business classes. The sheer numbers… Read More ›
Death in Black and White
By Michael Eric Dyson We, black America, are a nation of nearly 40 million souls inside a nation of more than 320 million people. And I fear now that it is clearer than ever that you, white America, will always… Read More ›
US-backed Syrian alliance, Assad regime make gains against ‘Islamic State’
US-supported Syrian fighters as well as Russian-backed Syrian regime forces are homing in on the power center of “Islamic State.” The aim is to seize supply lines from Turkey and pave the way for the capture of Raqqa. A coalition… Read More ›
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