Humanitarianism: this abstract noun gained wide currency during the high noon of neoliberalism. It connotes philanthropy and benevolence, a charitable impulse towards the unfortunate from those ...

“The idea that we’re able to deal with the rights of women around the world by military force is not rational.” This single sentence from President Biden’s ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos on ...

US Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) discussed the Hamas video showing the hostage Evyatar David in a post on X. "The world’s silence about the deliberate starvation of Israeli hostages—at the ...

It may be time to reconsider the use of such words as “humanitarian” and “humanitarianism”. There has been little of that sort evidenced in the Israel-Hamas War, marked by industrial-mechanised ...

The United Nations International Day of Human Space Flight is on 12 April. As we look towards settlements on the Moon and Mars, and farther afield, we must plan and prepare for disasters in off-world ...

CAMBRIDGE — When the chief of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital asked Dr. Jim O'Connell, then a senior resident, to join a new Boston program to bring health care to the homeless, O'Connell ...

No matter their individual views on the subject, Americans need to understand something about immigration, says Boston College School of Social Work Assistant Professor Alejandro Olayo-Méndez, S.J.: ...

Humanitarianism is probably the most important "ism" in the world today, given the collapse of communism, the discrediting of neoliberalism, and the general distrust of large-scale political ...

Aug. 19 is World Humanitarian Day and, as with most things related to humanitarianism, it has a tragic origin. On that day in 2003, a bomb attack killed 22 humanitarian aid workers. Five years later, ...

If this is the first time you’ve heard the term “blockchain,” don’t worry, you haven't missed anything ... yet. Skepticism and confusion continue to surround blockchain technology, especially its ...