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To step back from the precipice we are at, those in positions of power must show long-view leadership to build a better world for current and future generations. But time is running out. Note: At the conclusion of their board meeting in São Paulo, The Elders this week called on world …

It will be a few weeks before the fallout of the Trump guilty verdict can be properly assessed. But what won’t change are the fundamental problems facing President Biden’s re-election campaign. Of course, Team Biden remains in the denial stage about “misinformed” voters, unfair media and the whole typical menu of excuses …

A top immigration advocacy group is pushing the press to focus immigration coverage on former President Trump’s promise of mass deportations, a series of proposals they say would wreak havoc on immigrant communities and the economy in general. In a memo to the country’s editorial boards, America’s Voice Executive Director …

A Los Angeles construction worker injured his back, leaving him unable to work. He and his wife lost their home and ended up living outdoors. They diligently signed up for lists to get subsidized housing and waited for years with no progress. The police repeatedly would wake them early in …

It was a vicious campaign. The Republican challenger to the incumbent Democratic president hurled scurrilous accusations that he was conspiring with others to alter the election outcome. No, this was not 2024, but the campaign of 1940. The Republican nominee for president that year, Wendell Willkie, accused Franklin D. Roosevelt …

U.S. leaders once understood and accepted that strong powers would insist on a security zone and broad sphere of influence in their immediate geographic region. An especially persistent feature of international affairs has been the existence of spheres of influence. Major powers routinely seek to shape the international system to …

Even as artificial intelligence is booming and there will be reportedly 200 zettabytes of data in the world, “we are in another crisis of research access to data,” a former reporter said at Harvard this May. The culprit in that crisis is the double-headed monster of government and the private sector. The effects …

The US Celebrates $95.3 Billion In Military Funding For Israel, Taiwan, Ukraine, And The US. We unpack the US Indo-Pacific strategy and what’s at stake. On the evening of 14 May, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken climbed onstage at Barman Dictat in Kyiv, Ukraine, to pick up an electric …

It might be wise to stop hyping how wonderful the economy is for working people who know one thing better than any so-called expert: the economic strain they and their families feel each day. The pundits are at it again, fretting over the latest poll numbers showing that President Biden is losing …

This is part 3 of Washington DC: The Unaffordable and Unnecessary War Capital of the World.  Read part 1 and part 2. The pivot from Republic to Empire circa 1949 remains evident even today – fully one-third of a century after the Cold War ended and the Soviet Empire was swept into the …