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Conversation with Alicia Foxworth Author of Ghost Writer, an Abolitionist’s Tale
I’m attending the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival after speaking with playwright Alicia Foxworth about her piece Ghost Writer, an Abolitionist’s Tale. BBTF’s 2025 season spotlights four new musicals and eight original plays making their New York debut—works that champion “story,…
My Food Adventure in Denmark and Italy: Stories of Mistaken Identities
“Let me guess, you are 20.” The Dane who opened the door said. The slight, dark-blonde boy who said he was 17 then carried my luggage to the room on the second floor. This new home for me, just outside…
Despite Wide Agreement on the Need to Address the Plastics Crisis, Oil States Derail Efforts for a Global Plastics Treaty
Geneva – The Plastics Treaty INC-5.2 negotiations closed today without an agreement, despite the majority of nations calling for meaningful, global solutions to protect health and the environment. While the INC has called for negotiations to continue at a date…
Zohran Mamdani, Violence, and the Establishment’s “Law and Order” Playbook
The recent shootings in Manhattan two weeks ago and Brooklyn this week have reignited the familiar “law and order” drumbeat in New York politics. Predictably, establishment voices—Mayor Eric Adams, former governor Andrew Cuomo, and their allies in big media—have rushed…
Ambitious Countries Stand Strong, Refuse Weak Plastics Treaty
Way Forward for Treaty Negotiations Left Unclear, Civil Society Stands with Countries Choosing People Over Politics Geneva, Switzerland– At the close of the plastics treaty negotiations (INC-5.2), ambitious Member States held strong under immense pressure and a broken process, and…
Russia and US shared a common responsibility toward the growing fear and violence in the human mind
Today president Trump will meet with president Putin in Alaska. This meeting is planned with the aim of launching talks to end the conflict in Ukraine. Perhaps it’s an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the willingness of the USA and Russia…
The Cost of Reality in the Psyche of a Conscious Journalist
It is not fatigue: it is erosion. Reality, when it touches you daily with the coldness of a war report and the smell of a morgue, wears you down from the inside until it makes invisible the edges that once…
Global Warming in Vogue, Deal With It!
Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are…
EcoWaste Coalition Calls for Strengthened Action to Stop Production and Trade of Mercury Cosmetics
Watchdog Group Lists 48 Skin Lightening Products Adulterated With Mercury 15 August 2025, Quezon City. As the eighth anniversary of the global entry into force of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is observed on August 16, the toxics watchdog group…
Global South Governments and CSOs Demand to Secure a Strong Plastic Treaty at INC-5.2
Geneva, Switzerland– Demonstrating strong unity, Global South Member States and Civil Society called for ambitious, legally binding global measures to curb plastic production, in a media briefing on the closing day of the second part of the fifth session of…
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