Even if the rare sun-soaked day evoked more a sense of Catalonia than it did Normandy, I wasn’t expecting to see the name of Carles Puigdemont on the Guardian’s front page this morning. He has written an op-ed, citing Martin Luther King Jr.’s defense of the Birmingham marches, condemning violence, and attacking the Spanish state. He closes with a plea to the world: “The Catalans are a dignified people and deserve to be treated with dignity.” It seems like years ago that pictu

In an era of divisive national platforms, the Iran Nuclear Deal provides yet another example of the disparate foreign policy goals of the western world. Leaders in the European Union have recently approved a measure known as the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, which will work to facilitate trade between the EU and Iran despite heavy U.S. opposition to such a move. European nations have often been critical of the United States’ withdrawal, noting that freezing the as

One phrase I didn’t hear mentioned in the media sphere during the recent government shutdown was “Constitutional Crisis.” An estimated 800,000 federal employees went unpaid, and those deemed essential were compelled to work without pay whilst being unable to collect unemployment benefits. Federal unions raised Fair Labor Standards Act in violations in the courts and there was much discussion about invoking the 13th Amendment’s prohibition on slavery and involuntary servitude