CNN host Jake Tapper confronted White House press secretary Josh
Earnest
[http://www.businessinsider.com/two-us-navy-boats-reportedly-in-iranian-custody-2016-1]
over his chara...
“We’re seeing police experimenting with social media monitoring
software all around the country,” the ACLU's Jay Stanley told MTV
News, “which we definitely don’t th...
[http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23522/turkey-media-roundup-(2015-year-end-review)]
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on
Turkey and re...
Schengen needs to be safeguarded in the face of international crises,
write Jacques Delors, António Vitorino, Yves Bertoncini and the
participants of the Jacques Delors Insti...
The last time I took 2 weeks off was probably 20 years ago. As I write
that down, it makes me sad. I’ve been been running pretty hard for a
long time. Even when I had some f...
North Korea said Wednesday it conducted a "successful" hydrogen bomb
test. The announcement on state television came less than a month
after North Korean leader Kim Jon Un cla...
The single biggest contributor to climate change in California
[http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california] is a blown-out
natural gas well more than 8,700 ft. undergroun...
I am fortunate to serve on a Town Board that wrestles with difficult
problems—such as helicopter noise, enforcement challenges in
Montauk, overcrowded housing in single-fami...
Last November 20, the French National Assembly signaled its strong
support for the government's militarist and securitarian reaction to
the killings of November 13 by voting a...
Climate change will have some pretty terrifying consequences. Experts
have predicted everything from deadly heat waves and devastating
floods to falling crop production and ev...
The European Commission announced on Sunday (3 January) that it would
discuss the state of the rule of law in Poland after the country's
hard-right government pushed throu...
Nearly a million people, many of them wearing eyeglasses with a big
"2016" worked into the frames and purple top hats, crowded into New
York's Times Square Thursday night to c...