Nearly three-quarters of Americans (74%) say it would be too risky to give presidents more power to deal directly with many of the nation’s problems. Americans’ views about expanding presidential power have been mostly unchanged from recent years, according to a January Pew Research Center survey of 5,140 adults Americans are generally skeptical about …

By bombing Israel, Iran showed the world that attacks on embassies remain a serious crime, subject to severe military responses. Iran’s military response against Israel was extremely important, both for the balance of forces in the Middle East and for the global stability of relations between states. The Iranian attack …

The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Out of the fog of these wars, a clear anti-imperialist focus is emerging. Giving peace a chance has never been more plainly understood as opposition to what Martin Luther King, …

After Iran retaliates for an Israeli strike, the Biden administration shows little interest in de-escalating what it admits to be a historically dangerous moment. At a gathering sponsored by the neoconservative magazine The Atlantic on Sept. 29th, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan took the opportunity to brag about his administration’s …

Robert Kennedy Jr. is the strongest third-party presidential candidate in 32 years. Many of his supporters are vaccine skeptics, and the Democrats are panicking. In 1960, America elected its first Catholic president in John F. Kennedy. He broke new ground not only with his religion, but also through opening for …

To the victor goes the spoils, so it’s said, but a planet despoiled by thermonuclear war, cast into darkness, ravaged by radiation, disease, and death, would, of course, offer no victory to anyone. When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) …

We should seek to build societies in which aggression and dominance are not rewarded. The researchers claim to be surprised by their findings, but is it really so remarkable? A large and impressive study of children’s progress into adulthood found that those who display bullying and aggressive behaviour at school are more …

An amendment headed for a vote Friday “would put in place the largest expansion of domestic surveillance since the Patriot Act,” one privacy advocate warned.

Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These agencies believe that the Fourth Amendment – which protects the individual right to privacy – only regulates …

KEY POINTS The wealthy are building “passport portfolios” — collections of second, and even third or fourth, citizenships — in case they need to flee their home country. Recent high-profile examples of second citizenships include billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, who added a citizenship in New Zealand, and former Google …