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 […]
After decades of trying to solve some of the world’s most intractable conflicts, I’ve come to believe…
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The Indian Supreme Court has legalized homosexuality, overturning a 157-year ban on consensual gay sex.…
The Trump administration’s foreign policy has been disappointingly predictable in its damage to US…
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 […]
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My husband is allergic to bills. It’s not his fault; call it an aversion to adulting… most of the…
The New York Times recently published an anonymous op-ed from a “senior official” in the Trump…
As information warfare becomes more common, agents of various governments are manipulating social media…
A new form of misinformation is poised to spread through online communities as the 2018 midterm election…
John Mahama was the Fourth President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana from 2012 to 2017. His presidency…
The developing world is in the midst of an environmental crisis. Simply breathing the air is a leading…
A week ago, the Afghan city of Ghazni, a strategic crossroads less than 100 miles from the capital,…