Society

At the entrance to the Visitors Centre of the European Parliament, there is a plaque with these words:  “National sovereignty is the root cause of the most crying evils of our times….The only final remedy…

We all have a general idea of what people like Julius Caesar and George Washington looked like. The images of these historical figures and more have been immortalized with the help of paintings, portraits, and…

A local firm here made good today on its vow to embed employees with microchips.  Sporting “I Got Chipped” T-shirts, some 40 workers at Three Square Market, a firm that makes cafeteria kiosks aimed at…

In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law. Have you heard about China’s social credit system? It’s a technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program designed to nudge…

Banks and big businesses worldwide are boycotting hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei on account of that country’s new law that sentences gays to death for homosexual acts. P. Morgan Chase & Co., the…

A student has claimed he was kicked out of class for saying there are only ‘two genders.’ The 17-year-old pupil who hasn’t been named, secretly filmed his teacher reprimanding him before posting the clip online.…

Roman emperor Nero is not remembered in a very positive light. There’s that whole thing with him murdering his mother, the bit about him killing his first wife, all that other stuff about murdering Christians…

Fulvia Pellegrino, 56, is a transgender woman. She recently spent more than $76,000 to change her body to look like a woman.. According to reports, Fulvia has undergone more than 150 lip and cheekbone fillers,…

How would you respond if someone asked you to describe the 1950s? Maybe you’d mention the Cold War between The United States and the Soviet Union? Elvis becoming more and more popular? The first satellites…

It’s no secret that the modern day education system, particularly in North America, desperately needs to be reformed. Children graduate from high school not understanding how to produce their own food, pay their taxes, or…