Is it to be inequality or equal opportunity?
It is a point of historical controversy whether or not when told that French peasants did not have bread to eat, Marie Antoinette uttered the phrase “Let them eat cake,” an even more inaccessible and scarce food for poor people.
Today a special on “kids for cash,” the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.
The John J. Moran Prison in Rhode Island is one of the last places one would expect to find a thriving meditative community.
SAN JUAN – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says it addressed significant threats, while “optimizing resources and building partnerships” in the Caribbean last year.
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is yet another victim of the war on drugs. Prohibition is not working. It is time to try something new.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic resumed their bilateral talks on Monday.
Five years after the inauguration of the first black president, racial inequality lives on, reproducing itself in a vicious cycle. Even if all discrimination were to end tomorrow…
Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago on 17 January, 1961.
“The progressive mindset is screwing up the world. The progressive mindset is guaranteeing no progress on global warming.”
I WANT to believe in the Jamaica Logistics Hub. I want to feel that this multi-pronged development initiative is going to help to realize the much-touted and highly optimistic Vision 2030 and make Jamaica the place to do business…
This is an image of a 19th century wood engraving called “Slaves in Brazil: The Terrible Torture of a Slave”, from ‘Journal des Voyages. It depicts a black slave being boiled alive above a huge cauldron.