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Michigan, seven weeks on: coalition boundaries begin to shift
Seven weeks after Michigan’s Democratic primary, the Senate race appears to be entering a new phase. Not because Abdul El-Sayed has built a decisive lead, nor because Mike Rogers has lost ground irreversibly. The change is different: the boundaries of the two candidates’ coalitions are beginning to grow less rigid. The question is no longer…
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Groups Urge FDA Action against Online Sale of Tobacco-Themed Candies
ASH and EWC deplore sales of cigarette-mimicking sweets 26 September 2026, Quezon City. Two public interest organizations pressed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to act against the proliferation of cigarette-like sweets, such as candy sticks and lollipops, as they contribute to the behavioral and psychological conditioning that normalizes smoking for children. ASH Philippines and…
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US Peace Prize at the People Forum on Saturday
The 18th annual US Peace Prize will be presented at The People’s Forum in New York City, 320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018, on Saturday at 6:00 pm, during the Move the Money conference’s closing reception. See details below. The US Peace Memorial Foundation presents this award to recognize and honor the most outstanding and prominent American…
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The Unflinching Daily Horror In The West Bank
More often than not, I find myself at a loss for words to convey Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the relentless havoc that the Israeli government enables settlers to inflict upon Palestinians in the West Bank. Rather than write yet another article expressing my outrage and disgust, I chose to speak in a more immediate…
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The Spiritual Person: A Call to a New Generation
What Silo’s Message asks of those who would change the world Silo’s Message is built in three parts: the Book, which is the Inner Look; the Experience, a set of ceremonies meant to inspire and orient daily life; and the Path, which offers reflections for personal, interpersonal, and social life. Read together, they do not…
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From Displacement to Dakar: Refugee Youth Find a New Starting Line Through Sport
by James Gitaka For weeks, the road to Dakar has begun long before these young athletes reach Senegal. It has started at the Complete Sports Athletics Training Centre in Kaptagat, Kenya, where six young athletes affected by displacement have been training together ahead of the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games. Rachid Rechene, Florence Masimbi,…
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Bangladesh Government Commit to Transform Primary Health Care Through Midwifery
NEW YORK, 24 September 2026 – The Governments of Bangladesh and Sweden, in partnership with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, reaffirmed their collective commitment to strengthening the role of midwives in primary health care and expanding access to quality sexual and reproductive health and maternal and newborn care at an event on the margins…
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Peru: President of the Judiciary rejects Keiko Fujimori’s statements at the UN
The president of the Judiciary, Janet Tello, expressed her opposition to the statements made by President Keiko Fujimori at the United Nations on September 22, who stated that “we defeated terrorism, but unfortunately even today, thirty-four years later, those who took on that mission continue to be tried, despite having demonstrated that due process was…
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Homelessness is but a few blocks away
Photo reportage by Evelyn Tischer, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada It looks like a beautiful camping ground, but it’s a homeless encampment in Regina’s Core Community Park, nicknamed Pepsi Park. Homeless encampment in Regina’s Core Community Park So that it looks a bit like a home A first homeless camp appeared there in October 2021 and was…
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Bremen and Gaza – Longstanding Solidarity
By Helga Merkelbach Bremen and Gaza are often compared in common media as the size of the two is similarly small, but Gaza holds a higher population density. Less well known is the fact that, on the one hand, a significant amount of the weaponry contributing to the ongoing killing and destruction in Gaza is…