by editor | Sep 9, 2019 | Top Page Links
Britain’s rigid, elaborate system of class distinctions may have a long pedigree, but that doesn’t make it respectable. The head of one of the UK’s largest unions, Frances O’Grady of the TUC, has made an impassioned plea...
by editor | Sep 9, 2019 | Top Page Links
Until not very long ago, “fake meat” would summon images, and perhaps smells and tastes, of highly unconvincing patties composed primarily of soy products and good intentions. No more: the meteoric rise of Beyond Meat, which has...
by editor | Sep 9, 2019 | Top Page Links
Having been stymied in his attempt to take the UK into a no-deal Brexit, Boris Johnson must now seek a new deal with the EU that somehow avoids the need for the dreaded “backstop” — a temporary customs union between the UK and...
by editor | Sep 9, 2019 | Top Page Links
It’s the battle of the improbable GOP celebrity politicians! Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor and star of “Kindergarten Cop” and “Twins,” has penned an op-ed in the Washington Post blasting President...
by editor | Sep 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Saving the Amazon rain forest, now under assault by Brazilian farmers and ranchers with the explicit assent of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, will be a global project requiring international cooperation by governments, citizens, and...
by editor | Sep 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
It has long been an article of faith among hardline Brexit backers that the threat of a no-deal Brexit will motivate European leaders, terrified of its likely economic impact at home, to compromise with the UK at the last second on thorny...
