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COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of...
Reporters are tasked with wading into the maelstroms of current events—fires, hurricanes, battle spaces, crime scenes, accidents, political...
America is for Americans – Americans only!” The words are those of Stephen Miller, speaking last month at the infamous Madison Square Garden...
Home insurance rates are rising in the United States, not only in Florida, which saw tens of billions of dollars in losses from hurricanes Helene...
If the Garrison State isn’t already here, it’s sure to be here very soon. Wait and watch and observe the arrival of a suped-up American political...
In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.”...
Biden and his ironically-dubbed national security “brain trust” of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan...
In 2022, the Council on Foreign Relations warned, “Income and wealth inequality in the United States is substantially higher than in almost any...
Often referred to as the most segregated city in the U.S. by media outlets like WBEZ Chicago and 14East, Chicago, Illinois, is riddled...
When a political party loses its legitimacy, its traditional priorities and moral compass, its candidates lose elections. Opting not to hold an...
One of the lasting legacies of U.S. President Joe Biden will be that he reinvigorated the American empire despite the risk of an increasingly...
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been back to my hometown of Lake Placid, New York. On a recent FaceTime conversation with my mother, she...
Never has it been more important to build strong places capable of weathering the storms barreling down on us, both the physical storms of a...
World leaders, negotiators, lobbyists and NGOs are meeting in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for COP29. COP (Conference of Parties) is comprised...
On October 29, 2024, the European Commission unveiled new countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicle (EV) imports, effective the following...
Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus...
According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase[es] the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a...
J.D, Vance explained in 2020 why he put aside the elitist atheism he picked up in college and law school to become a Catholic (“How I Joined the...
The world desperately needs to pull the plug on fossil fuels. So agree most of the official delegates from nearly 200 nations who have gathered...
In 2002, the state of Gujarat in India erupted in horrific violence that would shape and define Narendra Modi’s political career. The pogrom,...
Tariff Man Donald Trump thinks the world of tariffs. “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,” Trump said in September at a town hall event...
In February, the public health specialist Muna Abed Alah published a paper in the journal Current Psychology titled “Shattered Hierarchy: How the...
In the wake of the latest presidential election, it’s morning in America! Well, maybe not, but a lot of people seem to be talking about Bluesky,...
A UN Special Committee has characterized Israel’s war in Gaza as genocide, while Western "free" media has abandoned its ethical responsibility to...
Do people still recite nursery rhymes? If so, they might switch from shock at a not so good “little Jack Horner” in Washington, pulling a...
Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment...
When the election results came in on November 5th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to...
Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States marks a shift in US policy – from the Joe Biden administration’s hypocritical...
Biden’s executive agencies, like the EPA and the NLRB, are racing to complete important work before the Trumpster gang of Der Führer Donald...
After election defeats, political writers are quick to explain that if only the politicians had read my book and followed my advice, things would...
The results are in and the clear winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election is undeniably Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu...
Immigration to the U.S. southern border has long been subject to cold-hearted racial demagoguery. The Statue of Liberty may have welcomed some of...
U.S. laws require healthcare practitioners and anyone else to report to “the state” their suspicion of abuse of any child they’ve encountered....
Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of 31 books of nonfiction for adults and children, including Hummingbirds’...
The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his...
Two more United Nations committee resolutions. Both concerning the conduct of Israel past and current. While disease, hunger and death continue...
Donald Trump’s latest rollout of his hyper nationalist “America First” policy underscores the world’s long-term slide toward catastrophe....
We have just elected a cruel and ruthless monster who represents the worst of humanity and I feel my blood vessels pulsing with rage. I’m boiling...
Charlotta Bass, the first African American woman to serve on a major presidential ticket as part of the Progressive party, stated in 1952, “We...
Right now, it’s still up to Joe “All War, All the Time” Biden to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. He has the power to do so, and to pretend...