Newly re-elected President Donald Trump pledged in a recent interview: “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America”. He wants to deport anywhere from 15 to 20 million people, mostly from Latin American countries. “Criminals” for Trump is a broad slander against undocumented workers. …

The U.S. is dusting off the nuclear threat card to try to re-establish its hegemony, but is it really worth it? Nuclear weapons on the battlefield are an ever-increasing risk and competitors to the global challenge must confront this danger. The U.S. is dusting off the nuclear threat card to …

The incoming Trump administration plans to focus on China while letting Europe fend for itself. Yet deprioritizing the transatlantic relationship could backfire, pushing Europe closer to Beijing and undermining U.S. interests in the long term. Those around U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump who advocate for a rapid U.S. drawdown in Europe …

Neither major party candidate represented a challenge to U.S. complicity in Israel’s horrific war on the people and land of Gaza. “A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they have been forced to endure. Every single supplier of …

President-elect Trump’s mass deportation proposals threaten to gut the U.S. economy, shrinking growth and the labor force while juicing inflation, according to a report released Thursday by Democrats in the Congressional Joint Economic Committee (JEC). Sourcing data from the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the report found that deporting 8.3 million immigrants in the country illegally …

During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about the trade names and suppliers of surveillance software the FBI had purchased, the government has yet again quietly acknowledged its antipathy to constitutional provisions that all of its employees have sworn to uphold. …

It is time to ask: For the U.S., does the international law of the World Trade Organization still exist? As part of an escalating tit-for-tat of trade restrictions between the U.S. and China, the Chinese government has banned the export of several critical materials that have both commercial and military …

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in partnership with Lockheed Martin, has successfully performed its first live exo-atmospheric intercept of a ballistic missile target using the Aegis Guam System (AGS). The test, conducted from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, involved the air defense system detecting and tracking a medium-range target …

The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. Third quarter data is not yet available, but interest payments as a percent of tax receipts rose to 37.8% in the third quarter of 2024, the highest since 1996. That means …

History will not be kind to those who play with the future of humanity for the sake of their own political vanity. The danger of nuclear escalation is real. The international balance has hitherto been based on deterrence as an instrument of ‘guarantee’. But if this changes or fails, what …