What is love? A philosopher explains it’s not a choice or a feeling − it’s a practice
Edith Gwendolyn Nally, University of Missouri-Kansas City Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it…
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one.…
Was Beethoven truly the greatest?
Philip Ewell, Hunter College On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this seminal achievement of a…
Scenes of the Train Ride from Boston to NYC Part 2 of 2
Following is video that I captured on the Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 95 from Boston, Massachusetts USA to New York City, New York USA on the morning of October 6,…
Scenes of the Train Ride from Boston to NYC Part 1 of 2
Following is video that I captured on the Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 95 from Boston, Massachusetts USA to New York City, New York USA on the morning of October 6,…
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
by: Xan Brooks September 11, 2026 Watch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. Subscribe…
Epochal Crisis
The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism By: William I. Robinson, PhD In a groundbreaking new study, acclaimed scholar of global capitalism William I. Robinson presents a bold, original, and timely ‘big…
Interview: What Does the ‘I’ in AI Really Mean?
September 25, 2026 by Sara Talpos Is it possible that AI is — or might one day become — truly intelligent? We put this question to five experts working in…
NYC Delivery Workers Report Staggering Rates of Injury, Mental Health Issues
A new report by the CUNY School of Public Health is the first comprehensive look at the occupational risks faced by delivery workers since New York City implemented sweeping reforms…
Moral distress: for primary care doctors, ‘doing the right thing’ can feel impossible
Getty Images James Greenslade-Yeats, Auckland University of Technology and Tago Mharapara, Auckland University of Technology July 23, 2026 Modern healthcare systems ask much of primary care doctors. They are expected…
When that man is dead and gone
By: Irving Berlin Satan, Satan Thought up a plan, dressed as a man, Walked in the earth and since he began, The world is hell for you and me, But…
Brazil creates four Amazon reserves as plans to pave rainforest highway advance
By: Bobbybascomb September 22, 2026 The Brazilian government has created four new sustainable development reserves in the Amazon as part of an effort to mitigate environmental damage from the controversial…
“Musk” the documentary by Alex Gibney
An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded “inventor-entrepreneur” who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live. Movie trailer for the…