Political Activism

Read: Sit with negative emotions, don’t push them away But you should also ask yourself if maybe you are playing on the negative aspects of life and downplaying the positive ones. Is it possible that you are a little cherophobic? If so, remember that you risk becoming a more unhappy …

Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Desmond Cole, Ronald J. Deibert, Alex Marland and Karin Wells are the five finalists for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The $ 25,000 prize is awarded annually to a literary non-fiction book that deals with a political topic relevant to Canadian readers and that has …

A narrow and dilapidated street lined with modest makeshift buildings. A tangle of electric cables hangs like a giant spider’s web between the houses. We are in the Burj al-Barajneh camp, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Murals depicting the former head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, …

US espionage activities are back in the limelight after European media reported that Danish intelligence services helped the United States spy on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior politicians in Europe . French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a video screen during a joint press conference Monday with …

James lebron – from The Decision to beyond – ushered in an era of player empowerment in the NBA. The players conspire together to team up. They change teams in free agency and require trades. Beyond the court, the players express themselves on issues that are important to them. Isaac …

IPC (M) veteran leader Mythili Sivaraman, known for co-founding the Democratic Women’s Association of India, died in Chennai while undergoing treatment for Covid-19. Sivaraman, 81, was a research assistant at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations from 1966 to 1968. She then returned to India and actively …

Let’s talk about the hair. Cue the soundtrack to the Broadway musical theme song “Hair”: “Give me a head with hair / Long, beautiful hay-ahh…!” Stop the music. I mean real hair! And respectability. Let’s talk about it too. The “respectability policy” has taken a hard hit lately, even from …

Candidates for the Iranian presidential elections have always been strictly controlled and those deemed insufficiently loyal to the Islamic revolution have been disqualified. Within those limits, contenders had divergent views on easing national restrictions or on relations with the West, and sometimes the winner was even a surprise. Now even …

Retired Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput has joined “Tucker Carlson today” Friday to discuss the importance of political activism – including for loyal practitioners – but warned that party politics always betray members. “In a way, I think it’s really important to be involved in politics. I think it’s important …

We are less than two months from 80 from the American Humanist Associatione Annual conference! This year, we are celebrating eighty years of humanist thought and action by bringing our humanist community together for a whole new kind of virtual conference. We hope you will join us on Saturday July …