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

US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral

There is a clarifying power to nonviolence. When Dr. Martin Luther King was jailed in Birmingham in 1963 for protesting racial segregation in that city,

Everyone in my public school third-grade class learned arithmetic. Apparently, this puts us way ahead of Donald Trump and much of the punditry. They

A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and Road Initiative, news broke

The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power. In the

The 2026 social security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) is 2.8% which provides those receiving the most money from social security with more money compared to those receiving less. According to the Times report, the 2025 monthly social security payment…

For regular viewers of Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Program, she and her team recently reported from the COP30 conference in Belém, Brazil.  This COPS