Here’s what we’ve been paying attention to this week Lawyers of the prisoners at Guantánamo say that at least 100 of the 166 inmates are now on hunger strike, with a handful now required to be force-fed through tubes. While [...]

Here’s what we’ve been paying attention to this week. The shortcomings of mainstream journalism were exposed this week as seen in the coverage of the rapidly developing parallel stories coming in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. It began [...]

Iris Apfel, the style icon who just celebrated her 91st birthday, has had a banner year and shows no signs of slowing down now. Apfel has long been a source of inspiration for fashion insiders, but over the past year [...]

Who: Rebecca Berg Where: Born in San Diego, Lives in Washington, D.C. What she does: Political reporting fellow, The New York Times What’s on your mind today? My next articles. I won’t say any more than that, though, lest I scoop myself! [...]

A modern day slave trade may seem unimaginable, but it is in fact all around us. Two and a half million people just this year have fallen victim to this $32 billion industry. The United Nations reports that 80 percent [...]

The Western Sahara does not often frequent our thoughts, but in this mysterious desert, there lives a group of exiles under military occupation. The Sahara International Film Festival, or FiSahara, might be the world’s only film exhibition held in a [...]

Street style columns are everywhere now. Bloggers like Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist), Yvan Rodic (Facehunter) and Phil Oh (Street Peeper) have worked from the ground up to make huge successes of themselves; they now regularly shoot campaigns for high-end fashion [...]

The phenomenon of globalization has interconnected the world in ways never before experienced by mankind, yet there remains a distinct lack of empathetic human connection. This is especially true in the western world where out of sight and out of [...]

The democratically-elected president of a tiny nation, who has had a giant voice in the climate change debate, has been forced to resign at gunpoint in a coup d’état. Mohamed Nasheed made his resignation under duress as president of the [...]

Earlier this week, thousands of women took part in a march of historic proportions, taking to the streets of Cairo to demand women’s empowerment and decry the brutal attacks on female protesters. The women of Egypt have become increasingly vocal [...]