It had been several years since professor Joseph Palamar had seen that unmistakable “caveman face,” the telltale sign of an imminent overdose of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB. Standing among throngs of concertgoers at a Brooklyn music venue last year, Palamar spotted the bulky man with the contorted face nearby. He was struggling to remain conscious. “I’ve noticed that when people are meant to pass out and they keep forcing it, they make these very strange, primitive faces."

In 1977, the year Harvey Milk made his historic run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, a New York Times reporter asked the firebrand activist why he, and several other gay men, were vying for political office.

When you’re a young adult on your parents’ insurance, your health decisions are a family affair. And that’s a problem for HIV prevention.

When I lived in Paris for two years, Notre Dame was often a nuisance. I was attending graduate school and renting an apartment just a two-minute walk from the cathedral, thinking initially that I'd attend mass there on Sundays. Instead, I spent most mornings pushing through the throngs of tourists who were scattered across the church's plaza. I repeated this maneuver each evening...

Watching the music video for SpongeBOZZ’s latest single “Yellow Bar Mitzvah,” it is not immediately clear what is really going on. The first 15 seconds are a hodgepodge of menacing images and deafening noise. The video opens with a shot of a Hannukah menorah flickering in a dimly-lit room. As the frame widens, grainy footage comes into view of Orthodox Jewish men dancing to a spirited rendition of Hava Nagila. The camera then pans to a scantly-clad woman pushing a wheelbarrow full of cocaine...

Like Paris, most inland cities have not been key sites of scientific inquiry on the effects of climate change. However, it is evident that climate change-related risks to inland municipalities, most notably floods, are a grave concern. Indeed, negligence on this issue can incur high financial and human costs.

Rhetoric is more easily produced than policy, a point the panel stressed throughout the event. In today's highly-connected and synchronized world, it will be very difficult for the United States to retreat from the global stage. “You cannot escape the world,” Moratinos assured the audience. Indeed, it will be difficult for Donald Trump to retreat on all fronts and in all regions where American involvement has been a cornerstone for years, if not decades.

The Islamic State is now on the run in Syria and Iraq. Following the terror group’s defeat this summer in its self-declared Iraqi capital of Mosul, ISIS has now been driven from its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. This comes more than four years after ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his “Caliphate” from the pulpit of the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul. ISIS’s aim was a break from the more amorphous strategy of al-Qaeda, with the Caliphate meant to be a reestablishment of the Prophet Muhammad’s th

A new corruption scandal shows just how far South Africa’s politics has declined from the ideals set by the former president and anti-apartheid icon.

Mercedes Moya broke the news of Donald Trump’s victory in last November’s U.S. presidential election to her mother over the phone. Moya’s mother was on vacation at the time, and like most Americans who had been following the polls and 24-hour news cycle prior to 8. November, she did not believe what she was hearing at first. For Americans dismayed by the outcome of the previous election, 2017 has been a year of diligent vigilance. Having lost the fight to keep Donald Trump out of the White Hous

Flâneur. In French, it describes a person who wanders through a city, seemingly aloof, but truly engaged. The term has no precise English cognate — even Oscar Wilde, a master of language, kept the original French in De Profundis, the famous letter he penned from prison. For more than a century, the meaning of flâneur has grown alongside the cultural intrigue of Paris. Flâneur is reflected in Caillebotte’s sumptuous painting "Paris Street, Rainy Day" and Hemingway’s thoughtful strolls through the Jardin du Luxembourg.

Yesterday, as he announced the United States’ withdrawal from the historic Paris climate agreement, President Donald Trump appeared particularly eager to deride the perceived exploitation of America in past international negotiations. “We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore, and they won't be.”

When the fashion world descends on Paris each fall for a week of runway shows, afterparties, and celebrity appearances, the headlines follow. This year, among photos of Balenciaga’s platform Crocs and Thom Browne’s unicorn puppet, allegations that a gay club had forcibly ejected Violet Chachki, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race seventh season, went viral.

It is said to be the most traversed border in the world. Each day, some 130,000 travelers cross the U.S.-Mexico border at Tijuana. Many are American consumers in search of cheap goods in the Mexican border city. Others–around 70,000–are so-called “trans-border workers” whose livelihoods depend on the ease of access they have to foreign employment opportunities. Among the long lines of automobiles that snake across the border at Tijuana, is yet another, much smaller, handful of people crossing from the U.S. to Mexico...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s three decades in power may finally be over. Gunfire broke out late Tuesday in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare as military panzers moved in to prevent anyone from accessing government offices. At around 5 a.m. Wednesday, Maj. Gen. S.B. Moyo, a ranking member of the army, appeared on state television. “We wish to assure the nation that His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe […] Comrade RG Mugabe and his family are safe,” the commander said.

Basketball star-cum-celebrity apprentice-cum-cultural envoy Dennis Rodman is in North Korea for yet another rendezvous with his “lifelong friend” Kim Jong-un, the Supreme Leader of the hermit kingdom. When Rodman last visited Pyongyang in 2013, he blasted then President Barack Obama for nurturing hostile relations between the U.S. and the pariah state. But now, under Donald Trump’s watch, the flamboyant celebrity’s travel plans take on a whole other dimension. Indeed, Trump is also a friend of

In 2015, the popular, Greek island of Lesbos in the east Aegean Sea was overwhelmed. That summer, in addition to the seasonal flow of city slickers and foreign tourists, a new group of guests — refugees — arrived on the island in droves. In total, some 13,000 refugees made the short journey from Turkey to Lesbos by August of that year; many more crowded along the Turkish coast intent on following close behind on smugglers’ ships. With an emerging humanitarian catastrophe on its hands, Europe st

PARIS — When I awoke Monday morning to news of the shooting in Las Vegas, the toll stood at two people killed and 20 more wounded. By the time I arrived at the Worldcrunch offices, the casualty count had risen to several dozen dead — and would continue climbing throughout the day. Since moving to Paris last year, I’ve become a serious "virtual rubberneck" whenever there’s unfolding news back home in the United States.

Both powers are being eyed as leaders of renewable energy, though the fate of the planet rests on all national and local governments to do their part When United States President Donald Trump pulled America out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change last month, he declared that the historic international accord “hamstrings the United States while empowering some of the world’s top polluting countries”. He was talking about China and India. True, both countries are expected to increase emissi

Long known to be an American phenomenon, this weekend-shopping frenzy is catching on in other countries — but not without its share of detractors Droves of customers stampeding through large department stores on Black Friday was once a uniquely American phenomena. But the traditional day-after Thanksgiving shopping sale event has recently gained traction in other countries that have no connection to the American holiday. The insatiable consumerism that fuels American capitalism, it seems, is a