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Seven charts that show the world is actually becoming a better place
Julius Probst, Lund University for The Conversation Swedish academic Hans Rosling has identified a worrying trend: not only do many people across advanced economies have no idea that the world is becoming a much better place, but they actually even…
Five things the shutdown shows us about 2019
By Danny Katch, THE ERA of divided government began with the continuation of a ridiculous and destructive government shutdown caused by a president who seemingly cares only about impressing a hateful right wing minority obsessed with the symbolism of building…
Has Bait and Switch Become a Trump Signature?
By Dr Arshad M Kha, People voted for Donald Trump under the assumption, Mexico would be paying for your border wall. They why should the people pay now in this bait-and-switch game, when hardly any of their concerns are being…
Thanks Mr Trump for showing what a Brexit “shutdown” would look like
Weeks into Trump’s border wall tantrum “talks were due but as the nation digested the president’s rambling, contradictory and combative remarks at a White House press conference on Friday, potentially devastating effects of the shutdown were coming into focus. The Supplemental…
Persecuted as a terrorist in Spain
Tamara Carrasco campaigns for an independent Catalonia. She was arrested and has been in house arrest for months In the morning of April 10, 2018, the 35-year-old social worker Tamara Carrasco García is woken by loud knocking on the front…
What is the Humanist Movement today?
On January 4, 1998, 21 years ago, at the Palacio de Deportes de “Obras Sanitarias” in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silo concluded his final report to the first Public Assembly of the Structure of the Humanist Movement with…
March 30: a call for US mobilization to oppose NATO, war, and racism
We publish below the call to participate in a rally against NATO, war and racism in Washington DC, USA on the 30th of March, 2019. The campaign website can be found here, where both individuals and organisations can register their…
What Britons get wrong about immigration – and why politicians need to tell them the truth
Bobby Duffy, King’s College London for The Conversation Immigration led the headlines again over the holiday season. Around 100 migrants were found on beaches or rescued from boats in the English Channel, sparking talk of a “crisis” and “major incident”…
Reflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019
In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant strides backwards while passing…
Face 2 Face with Laurie Loewenstein
On this show we speak with Laurie Loewenstein, author of Death of a Rainmaker, an historical fiction murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl. The book portrays the effects of the Depression and a drought as the protagonist tries…
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