here are nearly 14 million children in the USA who suffer from food insecurity and hunger, or about one in five. During the peak of the COVID crisis this had come close to about 18 million (see The Conversation discussion by four experts titled ‘18 million US children are at …

“We do not need to spend almost a trillion dollars on the military, while half a million Americans are homeless and children go hungry,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. The United States Senate overwhelmingly passed an $895 billion military funding bill on Wednesday as critics blasted what many called misplaced spending …

Given the current level of distrust, no agreement with Russia, regardless of the details, will secure Europe if its post-war deterrence is not credible. Over a month has passed since Donald Trump’s election, and the war in Ukraine is escalating instead of ending. Various unverified proposals for negotiations have been floated to …

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 …