Recently, the Trump administration has decided to end sanction waivers for countries buying Iranian oil. In an effort to put increasing pressure on the Iranian government, this decision will likely impact not only the Iranian economy, but global oil markets. Effective May 2, Washington’s decision will impact a wide range […]
On 26 April 2019, a family of 4 were jailed in Nottingham, U.K., for keeping a 51 year old Polish man as a slave. It is reported that he was made totally dependent on the family, for money, food and shelter. He was forced to work in car washes, given […]
A 19-year old opened fire in a synagogue in Poway, California, on Saturday morning and the last day of the Jewish holiday of Passover, killing one congregant and wounding three others. The attack was six months to the day after the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, […]
A group of self-avowed white nationalists barged into the Politics and Prose bookstore in Northwest Washington DC last Saturday afternoon, interrupting an appearance by author Jonathan M. Metzl, a psychiatrist and director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. As Metzl discussed his new book: Dying […]
