President Trump stood before the UN General Assembly this week and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea just as a new NPR poll suggested that three-quarters of the population are unaware that he has the sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. It should also come as no surprise that the public is in the dark […]
19 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF)…
From the moment the Houthis swept into Yemen’s capital in 2014, Yemen has been a country divided…
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As people celebrate the trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s much-anticipated “Dune” adaptation, the film…
The war against the Islamic State (ISIS) appears to be coming to an end in Iraq. Americans are again talking about winning and starting to think about what comes next. But I can’t help but wonder if this is the same “victory” President Bush famously declared on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln with […]
After the Supreme Court ruling in Bostock, which extended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to LGBTI+…
In the first four months of new looser federal rules for exporting firearms, as the coronavirus battered…
Recently, Madame Marie Skłodowska Curie has been in the spotlight. From the International Atomic Energy…
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How do I make a difference? What can be done to set our country on a better path? What actions can I take…
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Republican congressional primary win in Georgia ensures, in all likelihood,…
The recent police killing of George Floyd has sparked a long-overdue nationwide reckoning with police…
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