to watch previous video countdowns please visit: https://www.videocountdowns.com/ this year's video is once again in support of the Palestine Children's…

The topic, in Defector’s internal chat, on Friday, was a ban, in the nation of France, on smoking in most outdoor spaces. How can the French—the French!—ban smoking? David Roth observed that “this fee...

One of the earliest photos of me features my grandfather, a doctor from the Philippines, cradling me as a newborn while wearing a face mask. He had a cold at the time and I was as vulnerable as a…

In his own words, Pankaj Mishra wrote his latest book not to describe the atrocities in Gaza, which have been well documented, but “to ask some very basic questions: How can human beings treat other h...