No, EU, Turkey is not safe for everyone

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Friday prayer in Istanbul. Demotix/ Sahan Nuhoglu. All rights reserved.(Istanbul)–As the EU bends over backward to get Turkey to accept a deal to prevent Syrian and other refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants from leaving its shores or crossing its western borders, it’s worth thinking hard about what’s at stake. Whatever …

A 1,000-Year-Old Recipe Could Be The ‘Silver Bullet’ Of Medicine 

  For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously suggests that it was unenlightened by science or reason. However, some medievalists and scientists are now looking back to history for clues to inform the search for new antibiotics. The …

Zombie politics: Europe, Turkey and the disposable human

Zombies. Flickr/Lindsey Turner. Some rights reserved.In his book Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism[1] the US American public intellectual Henry Giroux examines the emergence of the culture of sadism, cruelty, disposability, and death in America. His metaphor, the Zombie, is a pertinent one: dead but not quite, the Zombie does not …

“Do you agree?” Orbán’s dangerous waltz with the radical right

"Shame on you Orban" rally in Budapest,September 2015. Demoted/ Martin Juen. All rights reserved.In Hungary, the radical right spearheaded by Fidesz is exploiting the refugee crisis for political gain. Through a politics of fear, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is fashioning himself as the defender of the nation and European Christian civilization. While Orbán’s xenophobic campaign …

My First Big Paycheck: Why I Spent It On Fancy Perfume 

Our first paychecks are often the most memorable. In this GOOD Money series, people share the details of their first career splurge—the first time they made real money and how they spent it.  In high school, all the wealthy girls had one thing in common: They smelled good. The distinctive notes of Clinique—citrusy, beachy—and Burberry Brit—upscale …

Even In Defeat, UConn's Effect On Women's Sports Endures

The longest winning streak in college sports history came to an end this past weekend. The University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team’s run of 111 straight victories ended with a last-second overtime loss to Mississippi State during the Women’s Final Four tournament. The lady Huskies remain the most successful college sports program in the country, …

See Exactly How Much More It Costs To Be A Woman Vs. A Man

It’s a brunch conversation/rant happening among women all around the world, and it goes a little something like this: “It costs so much more to be a woman! And it’s not fair!”  The lack of fairness? Those stats have always been there: Women have long earned less than men, and that gap isn’t closing fast enough. But the …

Iraq’s Kurdistan government needs a public debate on independence

Massoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi self-ruled Kurdish region speaks during a conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2016.Hadi Mizban/Press Association. All rights reserved.Many Kurds are convinced that to right the wrongs done to them throughout their history of political oppression and partition they must rule themselves and, to go further, claim statehood. They have …

This Grounded Girl Documented Her Dramatic ‘Escape’ From The Bedroom When She Got Locked In

While it may sound like parents locking their child in a bedroom is something out of a melodramatic YA novel, the truth behind teenage Alexa Pacheco’s incarceration is a little less…sinister. When she was grounded, her parents took the doorknob off the door so they could enter her room.  What they didn’t consider is, once …