En los últimos años, los informes de prensa de jóvenes blancos racistas se sintieron atraídos por la persuasión de extrema derecha, incluido el coqueteo con el fascismo. ¿Pero son la causa o la consecuencia?
Similar a cómo el ébola fue racializado como una enfermedad claramente africana, la noticia del coronavirus ha llevado a un brote de sentimiento anti-chino en todo Occidente.
Facing the worldwide spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization declared a global emergency yesterday in response to
For the first time in history, the future of the entire planet — for generations if not millennia to come — is now being fundamentally determined by the activities of the human species.
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE -- The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the
The US Supreme Court has refused to weigh in on these obvious racial discrepancies in the criminal justice system. Instead, it emphasizes constitutional colorblindness, which allows it to avoid confronting the judiciary’s role in perpetuating racial discrimination in the US.
The Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke fired 16 shots, killing the African-American teenager Laquan McDonald; 14 of those shots were apparently fired while McDonald lay on the ground. It took four years and the expulsion of the state attorney general before the trial against Van Dyke for first-degree murder resulted in convictions for the lesser
Israel’s former Chief Justice Aharon Barak recently warned that “what happened in Germany [the rise of the Nazis] can happen here [in Israel],” invoking a fierce response from Israel’s increasingly right-wing politicians.
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- Israel’s former Chief Justice Aharon Barak stated in a recent lecture that “what happened in Germany [the rise of the Nazis] can happen here [in Israel].” He went on to say that a regime that does not respect the separation of powers or human rights cannot be called
A ProPublica analysis found that black people and Native Americans are under-represented in clinical trials of new drugs, even when the treatment is aimed at a type of cancer that disproportionately affects them.
This story was co-published with Stat. It’s a promising new drug for multiple myeloma, one of the most savage blood cancers. Called Ninlaro, it can be taken as a pill, sparing patients painful injections or cumbersome IV treatments. In a video sponsored by the manufacturer, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.,
«Having grown up in Jerusalem I can recall how each year on particular days, including the Israeli Day of Independence, there would be processions at the Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods where the Israeli flag would be burned.»
JERUSALEM -- (Analysis) According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, anti-Semitism is defined as “hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.” This is also how anti-Semitism is understood by people in general. However, the state of
