Ava Chin is the author of Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love, and the Perfect Meal (Simon & Schuster), which won 1st Prize in the…

‘A parliamentary report published in 2013 noted that since its creation in 1948, Israel has granted official refugee status only to 200 people.’   (Washington Post)…

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The classic definition of terrorism is the intentional killing of civilians to make a political point, as in planting bombs near the finish line of…

- Upstate groups rally for secession. Yeah, upstate NY and Alabama Good luck with that, both of you. If they were to get their wish,…

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One way or another, humans are to blame for the catastrophic drought in California that scientists say may be emerging as a “new normal”. Either…

Hybrid cars, backyard composters and household rain barrels have much in common with green burial these days. Opting for a biodegradable casket or shroud and forgoing…

In the heady and panicked months following the financial crash of 2008, the US government bailed out a handful of the United States' biggest financial…

After forty years of rising income and wealth inequality, some of America's rich seem worried that maybe things have gone too far. In a recent…

Last week, the New York Times reported allegations that prison guards systematically tortured inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York following the high…