Subjects Archives: Inequality

Stewart-Kahn said many families face immediate decisions of which bills to pay and which needs to forgo, but that the parental stress and childhood distress will have long-term consequences for society.

Years after facing Russian disinformation accusations, the outgoing DNI released records on 120 U.S.-funded foreign biolabs.

Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval.

It bears thinking that the world needs to apologize to Lebanon and to Palestine as the genocide by Israel grinds on from Gaza City to Beirut.

India’s citizens are witnessing a remarkable inversion of democracy: a government choosing its voters rather than the other way around.

On September 25, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.”

The United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed upon a Memorandum of Understanding.

Former high-ranking Biden administration officials should arguably be facing charges at the International Criminal Court for complicity in the Gaza genocide.

Tasnim reports that last-minute changes happened in the Iran–U.S. memorandum talks, including Hormuz navigation terms, the Lebanon clause, fee exemptions, and phased reopening timeline.

NewsClick and various unions welcomed the verdict, hailing the Delhi High Court ruling as a strong stand in support of independent journalism and a warning against the misuse of state power.

When SpaceX shares began trading on the Nasdaq on June 12, the trap was already set.

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region and calls for more rigorous research that can trace the funding infrastructure behind terrorist groups.

Forty-six percent of U.S. adults–regardless of insurance type–reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank.

Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, the FBI and several police departments kept lists of known homosexuals and their friends, and even places they frequented, and the U.S. Post Office kept a list of addresses of people who received mail of a suspected homosexual nature.

Laws across the country targeting transgender people are driving families to relocate.

As this journalist has previously revealed, in August 1957 the CIA secretly drew up elaborate plans for a U.S. special forces invasion of Ukraine.

When major newspapers write about the definition or prevalence of antisemitism, they frequently look to the ADL.

One of the poorest kids in town, Macy was more neglected than abused by her alcoholic father, “the town drunk.” She “found refuge” in her friends’ homes or the living room of her grandmother who taught her to read and write and play checkers. She “took solace” in the nearby public library and the public school and “the women in charge of those sacred places who were also my demigods.”

“While working families struggle to feed their families, Republicans are cutting funding for fruit and vegetable vouchers for women, infants, and children,” said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro.

In 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of a single pill of Daraprim, an antiparasitic drug used by cancer and HIV/AIDS patients, from $13.50 to $750.00.