Everyone is catered for on Halloween, a sugar-fuelled party that celebrates the most harmless of holidays, albeit one with roots that trace back to the ancient Gaelic festival of Samhain

The US response to the climate emergency is all about security — when it really ought to be framed in terms of climate justice 

Stand-up is immediate in the way few other crafts manage to be — so we can't just ignore Covid, writes Maeve Higgins.

Photos of border patrol agents in Texas chasing migrants into the river are painful and shocking. Less conspicuous, but just as violent and inhumane, is the asylum system faced by those seeking safety in this country

A decade after the initial protest in Zuccotti Park, many of the people who mocked the Occupy Wall Street movement have changed their tune, realising that they are the '99%' railing against the injustice of a class system that sees the '1%' lording it over the rest of us, writes Maeve Higgins

The World Bank’s latest Groundswell report about climate migration and climate displacement brings to Maeve Higgins' mind a freak weather incident in New York and the stories of those who drowned in their homes in the city after Hurricane Ida

In 2005, Adama Bah became the youngest person, and the first woman, to be arrested and accused of terrorism by the US in their in-country ‘War on Terror’. The case was bogus and she was never charged.

Labor Day in the US has never been fully connected to workers. Rather, I associate it with stampedes at shopping centres, with shoppers tripping over themselves to get ever bigger TVs at ever lower prices

The myth of whiteness, and the presumption it is the 'normal' setting of humankind, could be creating a world of trouble

The US need to take responsibility for their marauding these past two decades. One way to do that is to stop invading other countries, another is to offer the unfortunate people they’ve been complicit in displacing a new home