Our tour guide, Brendan, turns down the sound of “Macarena” blasting from the speakers as he cuts the engine of the 20-or-so-person speedboat and eases us towards the harbor. In front of us is a steep ...

On the night of April 6, a cold wind ripped through the Jordanian capital. Despite the chill, hundreds still gathered for some two hours near the Israeli embassy to stand in solidarity with ...

From Iran to Ukraine, attacks on civilian infrastructure sites are putting the future of the world at even greater risk.

Applying relics of the past to the present, the US orders the creation of a CIA taskforce in its latest move to force Cuba to ...

Amid war, an anti-immigrant crackdown, and a far-right push to remake the US, Inkstick has book suggestions to understand ...

A new Human Rights Watch report takes a hard look at the Trump administration's gutting of civil rights enforcement.

As the Trump administration reportedly plans to welcome Afrikaner refugees to the United States with an Android tablet, an American flag, and a packet of right-wing educational resources, the same ...

For 39 years, insulin arrived on time. Dr. Fatima Mohamed Omer is a retired English professor from Wad Madani in central Sudan who has lived with diabetes for almost four decades. In this time she has ...

Despite the US war on Iran, the Mecca Pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan could reshape the Middle East.

In the lead-up to the 2018 midterm vote, Donald Trump issued a dire warning: The United States was facing an imminent invasion. He soon threatened to cut off aid to several countries that, in his ...

In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling observation about the connection between past and present: “History never repeats itself, but the … present often ...

When 18-year-old Omar al-Ghafi joined the peaceful anti-government protests in Darayya during the 2011 Arab Spring, he had no idea what would follow. During the brutal 13-year civil war that ensued, ...