As we draw closer to polling day, there is really only one question anyone needs to have in their head. Are things better or worse than when America last went to the polls? The problem is that you can answer that differently state by state. A lot of people who…
Conservative: Va. History Repeating in NY? Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe likely lost the 2021 election with his debate declaration, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Now, argues the Washington Examiner’s Hugo Gurdon, Gov. “Hochul may have just gifted deep blue New York to her…
There are over 8,500 coal power plants in the world, with over 2,100 GWs of capacity. These plants generate about 10 gigatons of CO2 emissions per year, nearly 30% of the global total. Credit: Bigstock Opinion by Philippe Benoit, Chandra Shekhar Sinha (washington dc) Wednesday, November 02, 2022 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON…
Andrew Anderson, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders opens the Dublin Platform at Dublin Castle on 26 October 2022. Credit: Kamil Krawczak for Front Line Defenders Opinion by Andrew Anderson (dublin, ireland) Wednesday, November 02, 2022 Inter Press Service DUBLIN, Ireland, Nov 02 (IPS) – Before she was murdered in Honduras…
Urgent immediate actions must be taken now, both to address the crisis in the short-term and long-term. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS Opinion by Esther Ngumbi (urbana, illinois, usa) Wednesday, November 02, 2022 Inter Press Service URBANA, Illinois, USA, Nov 02 (IPS) – The statistics are stark. The crisis is unprecedented. Yet again,…
Opinion by Stefan Lofven, Christoph Heusgen (stockholm / munich) Tuesday, November 01, 2022 Inter Press Service To prevent this from becoming the new normal, world leaders need to take radical, courageous action, together. The upcoming climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, COP27, is one of the places where this needs to happen….
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and dakar) Tuesday, November 01, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and DAKAR, Nov 01 (IPS) – Developing countries have long been told to avoid borrowing from central banks (CBs) to finance government spending. Many have even legislated against CB financing of fiscal expenditure….
Credit: United Nations Opinion by Haoliang Xu (united nations) Monday, October 31, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) – For decades, urban practitioners have failed to consider the needs of women in city decision-making and planning. Imagine being a young girl in a bustling metropolis. Every day she…
Opinion by Morseda Chowdhury (dhaka, bangladesh) Monday, October 31, 2022 Inter Press Service DHAKA, Bangladesh, Oct 31 (IPS) – The digital transformation of thousands of community health workers in Bangladesh has dramatically enhanced their work, while enabling the creation and tracking of a healthcare database covering 64 million people. The resulting…
There are a lot of New Yorkers whose parents and grandparents never voted for a Republican, who have themselves never voted for a Republican, and who have long planned to go to their graves never having voted for a Republican. Listen, I get it — I was like that, too,…
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