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There’s a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk. Or, in Greta Thunberg’s case, sailing the sail. The 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist is planning on attending a United Nations summit meeting on global warming, but she’ll be traveling in a sustainable way. Thunberg, who refuses to fly because of the amount of greenhouse gas […]
Fast food chains have been fighting it out for customer foot traffic for decades. But now, in the age of social media, they’re doing battle for likes and retweets by throwing some solid shade at one another. Taco Bell is in on the act. Burger King dissed Wendy’s after they dropped the 4 for $4 […]
Checking your credit card balance post-holidays, it may be the right moment to ask, “Am I a shopping addict?” An article on Fusion can help you take stock of your behavior to find out. Like a quick breast exam of the brain, it takes you through two steps of diagnosis by asking you if you’re an impulsive shopper—those who buy on the […]
They just appeared on the streets of Kyiv one day, these people with large yellow rucksacks and a memorable slogan on them, Glovo. Now you don’t need to go anywhere to order a double hamburger, sushi, salad or any other dish from several hundred cafes. A couple of clicks on the Glovo app and a […]
Last week Nigel Farage launched a campaign group in the US. Now an MP has written to the Electoral Commission demanding an investigation. In the letter, seen by openDemocracy, the shadow cabinet office minister Chris Matheson says that the revelation last week that Farage has founded World4Brexit to raise funds from the US “raises serious […]
More and more Americans are biking to work these days. According to a study by the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota, the number of Americans who commute to work on their bicycles is up 22 percent over the past nine years. “Though biking is used for less than one percent of commuting trips in […]
They just appeared on the streets of Kyiv one day, these people with large yellow rucksacks and a memorable slogan on them, Glovo. Now you don’t need to go anywhere to order a double hamburger, sushi, salad or any other dish from several hundred cafes. A couple of clicks on the Glovo app and a […]
Over the more than five years of war in Ukraine’s Donbas, artist Alevtina Kakhidze has spoken out for people living in the “uncontrolled territories” – the self-proclaimed “People’s Republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk. Kakhidze’s drawings, which focus on the lives of her mother and her neighbours, lay bare the problems faced by displaced persons and […]
The last example of an attack on freedom of expression was the incident that the Minister of Education of Brazil, Abraham Weintraub, was protagonist to only last night, a minister famous for his attacks on freedom within universities and for his disdain towards ordinary people. Weintraub was dining with his family yesterday on the terrace […]
When the U.S. soccer team won the World Cup, their victory was bittersweet. The team arrived in New York to both a tickertape parade and chants of “equal pay,” a reminder that despite the fact they continually perform better than the men’s team, they’re getting paid significantly less. Now that the World Cup is over, […]