What do Africa and the Caribbean have in common? They are two regions where the United States (used) to have influence. However, nowadays our influence isn’t just waning but is being replaced by the two countries that have made it their mission to replace the US on the global stage; Congress not reauthorizing internet subsidies for the low-income is...

It’s been four years since the planet faced a global threat that brought the world to its knees. Whether you call it COVID or The Pandemic, either name evokes a mix of memories, mostly bad. But time has passed and those memories are fading, or are they? A new 23-country study looking at global public health reveals some memories just linger; The River...

There’s no doubt Israel’s actions in Gaza are reverberating around the globe. News came over the weekend that arrest warrants for officials of Israel and Hamas may be forthcoming from the International Criminal Court in The Hague for violating international law. And college students everywhere are protesting Israel’s unrelentless bombing of Gaza, without...

CCTV. Any fan of BBC crime shows knows what those four letters refer to. It means the police will catch their culprit because he/she will be caught on video being somewhere they said they weren’t. CCTV or security cameras are gaining more acceptance stateside. Critics will always argue they’re a privacy invasion but just how much privacy should a person...

The ‘spoken word’ is persuasive. Whether it comes in the form of political rhetoric, protest chants or Tik Tok videos, words have the potential to persuade people to think one way or another. Words are especially influential when they’re repeated, sometimes ad nauseam. Words get into people’s heads, like a tune you can’t stop humming. How else can racist...

When COVID confined us all to our homes, we knew that being with people outside our immediate family raised our risk of contracting the disease, unless we wore masks and got vaccinated. So, in a place where strangers are piled on top of one another and there was very little money for anything like masks or personnel to give vaccines, it’s no wonder...