The authorities in Türkiye have hit their stride regarding international humanitarian law, a subject they are not always consistent about.  The Israeli

“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands…for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy

For those who either remember or have read about the Vietnam War, the idea of strategic hamlets will leap off the page at them. Strategic hamlets

Here’s a bold statement about Keith Hammer, the 2025 recipient of Fund for Wild Nature’s Activist of the Year award: no one knows more about the policies

Across the political spectrum – with alarm on the right and delight on the left – the display of warmth from President Trump toward Zohran Mamdani on

At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the

Ezra Klein had a classic column in the New York Times today where he advertises in his title, “America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart.” The chart he

The European counter-proposal to the original Trump "peace plan" for Ukraine has proposed changing point 5 from reading, super-vaguely, "US guarantee" to

When NewSTART (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, 2010) expires on February 5, 2026, Russia and the U.S. will face the prospect of a new nuclear arms race

Drugs are used at the same rate by white and Black people, and white people are more likely to sell drugs than Black people; yet, Black men are incarcerated on drug charges at a rate six to 13 times that of white men, and between 36% and 62% of people in…

Elliot Abrams, U.S. special envoy to Venezuela during Trump's first term, said in a recent Foreign Affairs article that the president's advisors should promptly persuade him that the point of no return has already been passed in Venezuela, and that the only…

Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted

The news got so absurd I watched only the cricket. Especially when it said the American peace plan for Ukraine was likely written by Russia. The

We think of France as being more liberated culturally and sexually than the US. And perhaps it is, today. But in the 1960s, post-war/pre-Mai '68 France

Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United States—the Amazon is the world’s

The 2021-2023 inflation surge saw sudden and persistent increases in prices for consumer goods, housing, and assets. Wage inflation also rose, but it

I haven’t given my diatribe on cheap drugs for a while, but what the hell. It’s a huge deal and no one in a position of power gives a damn (just like the

If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belém, Brazil

The death of the National Guard soldier Sgt. Beckstrom in Washington, DC was an easily averted tragedy that should never have occurred. To begin with, the