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 […]
On July 11, 2019, over thirty-six hundred activists, organizers, and political operatives descended on…
The systematized oppression, control, and attempts at cultural erasure of the ethnic Uighur population in…
When my partner and I started to become serious and commit long term, I began to play a role in his…
Sir Kim Darroch, British Ambassador to Washington, has resigned. His crime? Saying – in private…
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 […]
It’s a tradition for people in Hong Kong to protest on July 1, the anniversary of the day in 1997 when…
If there’s one thing that Donald Trump is good at, it’s pointing out when other countries are free…
The 2016 election brought with it some hope that America’s relationship with nuclear weapons might be…
This June, the Trump Administration released its Women, Peace, and Security strategy. If you’re like…
With all the talk about the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border it is easy to forget that just to…
Skepticism surrounding the Trump administration’s approach towards Iran has been on full display…
Since President Donald Trump announced: “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there…
Summer is near and Congress has begun to grapple with the Trump administration’s Pentagon budget…