Sweden

Teen Climate Activist to Crowd of Thousands: 'We Can't Save the World by Playing by the Rules Because the Rules Have to Change'

'Unprecedented' Heat Wave Fueling Arctic Fires Made More Than Twice as Likely by Climate Change: Analysis

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"The logic that climate change will do this is inescapable—the world is becoming warmer, and so heat waves like this are becoming more common."

'It Is Not Right to Send People to Hell': Swedish Woman's Plane Protest Stops Deportation of Afghan Refugee

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"I hope that people start questioning how their country treats refugees. We...

As Wildfires Rage and Heat Records Broken Worldwide, Corporate Media Urged to Cover Climate Crisis' Link to Extreme Weather

Julia Conley, staff writer

Wildfires are raging in countries around the world, including northern Sweden—above the Arctic Circle. (Photo: @AssaadRazzouk/Twitter)

"Sure would be nice if our news networks—the only outlets that can force change...

Welcome to the 'Second Tier': US Failing Big League on Social Progress

Sweden Drops Investigation of WikiLeaks' Assange, But Threats in US, UK Remain

Eight Countries Join Global Fight Against Trump's Anti-Abortion Move

What's the 'Goodest' Country? Hint: It's Not the US

500 Scholars, Activists, and Nobel Laureates Call on UK and Sweden to Free Assange

Fortress Europe Looms as EU Countries Implement Heightened Border Controls

After Five Years of Legal Limbo, Sweden Agrees to Question Assange in London

Strong Words, But Little Action at Arctic Summit

Swedish Dads Told to Take Three Months Paternity Leave

Swedish Court Refuses to Lift Warrant Against Julian Assange

Breakthrough? Swedish Prosecutors Drop Refusal to Interview Assange in UK

In Turnaround, Swedish Supreme Court to Hear Assange Appeal

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Never Forget: Grandson of Auschwitz Commandant Fights For A Nazi-Free Europe

With upcoming elections in a Europe beset by rising neo-Nazism, a new campaign by Swedish Social Democrats against the resurgence has a high-profile leader: Rainer Hoess, 48, the grandson of infamous Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, who presided over the murder of a million Jews and thousands of others. Hoess has spent years speaking to German schoolchildren about a Nazi influence growing now, as then, because "the social safety nets have been torn, and people are left behind...Hopelessness...