AMHERST — Draft language for the special legislation allowing money and scholarships to be provided to Black residents through Amherst’s reparations account, and the process for filing the legislation, are in the midst…
By Joe Cirincione When I was on the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee in the 1980s and 1990s, we always started our annual budget reviews with a…
By Richard C. J. Somerville | August 4, 2022 As a climate scientist, I recently carried out two interesting research projects. Both are relevant to efforts to reduce the danger…
By François Diaz-Maurin François Diaz-Maurin “Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.” This is how UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties…
At Gate 9 of Beirut’s port in mid July, all eyes were on the mammoth, concrete grain silos. There was a blazing fire and plumes of smoke were billowing out…
Protests over George Floyd’s 2020 murder were the largest civil rights demonstrations in American history. The brutal footage of officer Derek Chauvin’s suffocating knee on George Floyd’s neck led many white Americans…
https://youtu.be/KyTb_56XzN8 At 8.08am on the morning of 13th January 2018, the entire population of Hawai'i received an SMS from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, (HEMA) which read: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT…
Earlier this month, a video of a character appearing to snub two Black children at Sesame Place, a theme park in Philadelphia, went viral. Less than two weeks after a…
Republican leaders are promising a veterans' health care bill blocked by most of their members will pass this week, even as some still blame Democrats for the blockade. Senate Republicans…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim live with a complex form of post-traumatic stress disorder and a constant fear that followers of…