Revolut Ultra: The Best Mobile Banking Plan on the Market
By Staff Writer
Revolut has unveiled a new membership plan dubbed Ultra, featuring a Mastercard branded platinum card. With an annual subscription fee of £540, the plan offers a...
The 50 Year Old Struggle For Independence In The Western Sahara
By Staff Writer
Since November 2020, a military conflict in the Western Sahara has been boiling up again. The region has been occupied by Morocco since 1975, denying the Sahrawi independence movement the establishment of its own state.
The Real Danger of New Government in Israel
By Phyllis Bennis
New Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, a longtime leader of Israel’s illegal settlers, has bragged about being significantly to the right of his far-right mentor, Netanyahu. In 2013 he boasted, “I’ve killed a lot of Arabs in my life, and there’s no problem with that.”
Is US Choosing The Wrong Side In India?
By Shubh Mathur
The Biden administration is ignoring protest movements in India to support a right-wing nationalist government against China. India’s dramatic decline from a shaky but functional democracy into an authoritarian dictatorship under the hard-right Hindu nationalist BJP is nearly complete.
Ripped jeans and morality, how does India react?
By Deepali Dewan
Historians and writers such as Ramchandra Guha have acknowledged how serious affronts to civil rights occurring in India today have been steadily eroding India’s democracy. Within these deep and structural challenges, the recent ripped-jeans demonstrations offer a glimmer of hope. The online storm is a sign that India’s democracy is resilient and that protest can emerge in unexpected ways.
Impeachment of President Trump a ‘Pointless Revenge’?
By Michael Blake
The impeachment of President Trump is an indication that there is a need to mark out, through a definitive statement, what no president ought to do. It will also set the moral limits of the presidency – and, thereby, send a message to future presidents who might be tempted to follow in President Trump’s footsteps.

Posts published in “Ideas”

The genius of John Lewis’ unyielding nonviolent discipline

By Mary Elizabeth King on July 31, 2020

The civil rights icon’s uncompromising insistence on treating opponents with respect was perhaps his greatest attribute — even if it has not always been understood.

Don’t take life so seriously: Montaigne’s lessons on the inner life

By Dorian Rolston on July 30, 2020

Could ‘love hormone’ oxytocin help treat Alzheimer’s disease?

By Eleftheria Kodosaki on July 27, 2020

How CBD is Changing the Beauty Industry?

How CBD is Changing the Beauty Industry?

By Alex Pritchard on July 26, 2020

FIFA World Cup 2022; Prestige takes precedence over life
FIFA World Cup 2022; Prestige takes precedence over life
By Harry Markham
Over 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since 2010 as the death toll continues to rise, with many of those deaths occurring on Fifa World Cup related projects. The figure brings Qatar’s exploitative kafala labour system and lack of migrant worker’s rights to the fore. Change is needed, and Fifa must speak out.
Talent, You’re Born With. Creativity, You Can Grow Yourself
Talent, You’re Born With. Creativity, You Can Grow Yourself
By Jyoti Mishra
Creativity, it is said, is intelligence having fun. It’s the ability to generate ideas, solutions or insights that are strikingly original, and yet feasible: in cognitive terms, a compelling creative idea doesn’t break down if one were to systematically tease apart its logic.
Weight Loss Or Muscle Gain: How Calories And Macros Reshape The Anatomy?
Weight Loss Or Muscle Gain: How Calories And Macros Reshape The Anatomy?
By Emma Kinrade
While reducing calorie intake is a proven way to reduce your weight, there’s no shortage of diets promising the same results but with more flexibility.
Weight Loss : Is body weight influenced by when you eat?
Weight Loss : Is body weight influenced by when you eat?
By Alex Johnstone and Leonie Ruddick-Collins
Eating most of your calories in the morning may also lead to greater weight loss. This weight loss seems to occur despite similar daily food intake and activity levels to those who ate more calories in the afternoon or evening.