Lonnie Schmidt

Ahead of tense investiture vote, Pedro Sanchez says Spain will stand as ‘wall’ against ‘reactionary forces’ Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday slammed the country’s right-wing political forces…

Ady Barkan urged Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake to “be an American hero” during an exchange that was caught on camera, and it went on to inspire his Be A Hero…

On Thursday night, Westminster’s journalists gathered in the book-lined dining room of the former Liberal Club on Whitehall for the annual Press Gallery Dinner, a tradition stretching back to the…

Every nation needs parties of the left and the right, but America’s conservative party has collapsed—and its absence will undermine the recovery of American democracy even when Donald Trump is…

Not many companies whose profits have in essence flatlined over the past decade have seen their share price more than triple. By that measure Fujitec, a Japanese lift manufacturer, is a…

Political campaign material was sent to homes in the style of newspapers, with the titles Wolverhampton Chronicle, Sandwell Chronicle and Dudley Chronicle. Those names are trademarked by the Midland News Association (MNA),…

Australian citizen Chau Van Kham spoke with RFA after his release from a Vietnamese prison last week. Radio Free Asia interviewed 74-year-old Australian citizen and democracy activist Chau Van Kham…

 An Illinois college has been ordered to pay a Christian student $80,000 after she claimed that the school censored her speech. Maggie DeJong, a student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville…

Kurdistan Region – A Kurdish activist is walking from Washington DC to the United Nations headquarters in New York in an act of protest to mark the 100th anniversary of…

 Before sundown last Friday night, as American Jews prepared to light their Shabbat candles, some also lit yahrzeit candles. The additional flames, which signify mourning, burned in commemoration of the first…