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This Sunday, December 16, a comet called 46P/Wirtanen is going to come within 7.1 million miles of the Earth (about 30 times the distance of the Earth to the moon). While that may sound extremely far away, it’s actually close…
Republicans, about to lose their grip on power in a number of states, are souring Democrats’ election wins — and Wisconsin is taking charge. Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a slate of bills — passed by Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled legislature —…
With his new film, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” an adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, Barry Jenkins achieves something rare: he pulls the background into the foreground, combines a drama with an essay-film, an analytical documentary. What’s more, he…
In 2016, the multidisciplinary artist Devin Kenny’s work was screened in a video program at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Hito Steyerl, one of the show’s more established artists, forfeited her fee so that others could have…
Beijing and Washington have managed to agree to eliminate some differences regarding the automotive, agricultural, and energy trade sectors, spokesman for the Chinese Commerce Ministry Gao Feng said on 13 December. The government will suspend 25 percent tariffs on 144 US…
The European Parliament has voted for a resolution condemning the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as a threat to European energy security and urging to cancel the project. Since the resolution was non-binding, EU states can safely ignore…
