For what critics are denouncing as blatantly partisan reasons that have nothing to do with concerns about mass surveillance and everything to do with protecting President Donald Trump from an active investigation, House Republicans voted on Monday to release a secret memo that purports to show the FBI abused its power in spying on a […]
“The major issue of our time is the rapid movement toward international oligarchy,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) declared in a statement to the Guardian on Monday, which noted that “Sanders’ intervention in the debate sparked by the Paradise Papers marks the most prominent political response to the leak in their opening 24 hours.” Decrying a […]
In the past couple of weeks, thanks to the president’s racist comments about Haiti and African countries he can’t even name — remember “Nambia”? — as well as the stamp of approval he awarded future immigrants from Norway, we’ve seen a surprising amount of commentary about that fortunate country. Let me just say: those Norwegians […]
The death of renowned Pakistani human rights advocate Asma Jahangir on Sunday elicited an outpouring of condolences and calls to action, with fellow advocates and political figures from across the globe calling for a wave of renewed energy in fights for freedom, to honor her memory. “She was always on the front line for progressive […]
If the latest warnings contained in Monday’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—which included pronouncements that the world has less than twelve years to drastically alter course to avoid the worst impacts of human-caused global warming and that nothing less than keeping all fossil fuels in the ground is the solution to […]
It was a small and relatively intimate event—this small conference described as a “gathering of minds to envision the world we want”—that took place over three days as last month ended and December began in Burlington, Vermont. No, it wasn’t a “hootenanny.” The serious topics discussed in detail and with passion were poverty, inequality, human […]
In September, Argentine president Mauricio Macri accepted the 2018 Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award. In attendance were many of world’s neoliberal power players and policy makers, among them International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Facing the crowd, Macri gleefully admitted that “with Christine, I have to confess we started a great relationship some […]
Claire Foy‘s turn as a young Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown earned her widespread acclaim and a Golden Globe. One critic she hopes never sees the Netflix series? The iconic monarch she plays. “I would hate the idea of her watching it,” Foy says in Town & Country’s October cover story. “When you’re playing a real […]
It’s been months since Drake used to call Rihanna on her cell phone, but the “Hotline Bling” rapper proved that he still has the “Wild Thoughts” songstress on his mind—or, er, his feet—as he paid homage to her. Almost a year after publicly declaring his love for the Barbadian beauty at last year’s VMA Awards, […]
Solange is the latest star to step up and use her platform to help victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, the singer’s hometown. On Wednesday, she took to Instagram to announce she’s donating all proceeds from her upcoming “Orions Rise” show in Boston to those affected by the natural disaster. “I’m committed to partnering with […]