Fortune 500 Firms Expand Gay Rights Support After DOMA Decision
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Corporate support for gay and transgender rights is reaching workers in new corners of the country and economy six months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal...
View ArticleSt. Madiba and the Curse of Canonization
When Nelson "Madiba" Mandela came to New York the first time we met, he exuded charisma combined with a rare modesty. He chuckled when I told him that he was responsible for my current career path,...
View ArticleExtreme Weather Photos Of The Week
This week brought several big headlines in extreme weather news: Deadly storms battered Britain and Scandinavia, killing at least three people and leaving tens of thousands without power. Chilling...
View ArticleNew Yorker, Washington Post Passed On Seymour Hersh Syria Report
NEW YORK -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh accused the Obama administration Sunday of having “cherry-picked intelligence” regarding the Aug. 21 chemical attack in Syria that served as...
View ArticleNSA Staffers Feeling Neglected By Obama, Would Very Much Like Him To Stop By
Staffers at the National Security Agency feel overlooked by the White House amid revelations of the agency's vast domestic surveillance programs, according to a Washington Post report published...
View ArticleCable News' Mandela Coverage Focuses On Obama Selfie, Handshake: Study
President Obama's handshake with Cuban president Raul Castro and his selfie with other world leaders at Nelson Mandela's memorial service made headlines on Tuesday. The stories prompted some critics to...
View ArticleTragic Brazilian Car Crash Is Also Totally Bizarre (PHOTOS)
This is one of the strangest car crashes we've ever seen. Photos and news reports from southern Brazil show a nose-planted truck in a sunny field, dozens of feet from the road it was driving on before...
View ArticleNorway Is Digitizing All Its Books
Norway is going digital. In a plan to scan all of its publications to the cloud, the National Library of Norway is digitalizing its books, and it and plans to make them all freely available to users...
View ArticleViktor Yanukovych Offers Talks, But Ukraine Protesters Say No
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Opposition leaders in Ukraine rejected President Viktor Yanukovych's offer of talks Wednesday, saying they will not sit down with him until he fires his government and releases all...
View ArticleUkraine's Downward Spiral
In his 1946 speech, Winston Churchill spoke of the "iron curtain" descending across the continent of Europe. The Cold War has been over for more than two decades, and yet Russia's influence on the...
View ArticleYou Do Not Argue With Nelson Mandela: Lessons on Business and Context in...
This article first appeared on Harvard Business Review During this time of global contemplation on the deep legacy of Nelson Mandela, I realized I have my own connection to this "giant of history,"...
View ArticleNeymar Scored A Hat Trick Against Celtic For His First Champions League Goals...
There may not have been much suspense in the air when Barcelona and Celtic kicked off at the Camp Nou on Wednesday night but Neymar provided plenty of reasons to stay tuned in to the match. To be more...
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Easter Island Collapse Disputed By Hawaii Anthropologist
Dr. Mara Mulrooney wants to debunk Jared Diamond’s famous assertion that the people of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, committed “environmental suicide.” Mulrooney, assistant anthropologist at the Bishop...
View ArticleOptimism Will Make the World a Better Place
Some 1.2 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day. Wars rage around the world. Climate change is knocking at our door. In all, there's a lot to be afraid of. But there's also a lot to be proud...
View ArticleSorry, Indian Supreme Court, but Queers Are Here to Stay
In the 1980s Aditya Advani left India for America. His sexuality was not the reason he left, but it was certainly part of the reason he stayed back in America, as it was for countless others like him....
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Artists Turn Berlin Apartment Complex Into 22,000-Square-Meter Mural (PHOTOS)
We're endlessly surprised by just how powerful perspective can be. Where most people saw a row of apartments, the artists of French creative collective CitéCréation saw a canvas -- and three years...
View ArticleEt Tu, India? Why I Am a Criminal (Again) in My Own Country
In India, the largest democracy in the world, gay sex is illegal again -- "again" because the law from 1860 British India that made "sex against the order of nature" illegal was struck down by the...
View ArticleAlert: The Nuclear Agreement Is Risky for Iran Too
Is the "Joint Plan of Action" accord to curb Iran's nuclear program a good agreement for the West and Middle East peace, or is the agreement, signed November 24 in Geneva, just the same treacherous...
View ArticleTom Pickering Interviews Henry Kissinger on America's Rebalancing Towards the...
Last Wednesday, the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C. hosted the Sisco Memorial Forum, established in honor of the late diplomat Joseph Sisco. Tom Pickering interviewed Henry Kissinger on a...
View ArticleDalit Protest In India Sparks Police Violence Against Christian And Muslim...
NEW DELHI (RNS) Police in India’s capital used water cannons and canes on peaceful Christian and Muslim leaders Wednesday (Dec. 11) while they were demanding equal constitutional protections. Organized...
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