COUP D’ETAT: A sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the alteration of an existing government by a small group. During last year’s

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+ Your neighbor burns down the house that your family has lived in since the previous family home, a hundred miles to the north, was demolished 75 years

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Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out

The administrative spectacle now unfolding exceeds all expectations. How should we respond? What is appropriate? I remember Abbie Hoffman and the general

At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, when 60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck, millions of Americans understand that if they are

As January bled into February, Lora Kelly notes at The Atlantic, US president Donald Trump “announced 25 percent tariffs on the country’s North American

How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another is

“There is something sick and rotten about states and societies that not only support and enable mass killings but also make money off of them.” – Pankaj

President Donald Trump's decision to delay for 30 days the implementation of tariffs on Mexican products averted higher costs for the legions of football fans gearing up for Superbowl Sunday. As is the ritual now, many pass the day drinking beer or other…

The experiment of U.S. President Donald Trump to "abolish" USAID, the results of which are still uncertain, has reminded us of an important truth: no

Elon Musk has been running wild with his DOGE team, on the one hand pretending shock over facts that were always public information, and on the other hand

Donald Trump has presented the world with a spectacular plan to help/save the people of Gaza. He will take control of the strip and move all the residents

Appropriately benevolent-looking, Netanyahu didn’t need to utter a word. He watched passively but attentively while the dauntless U.S. president announced

In an Uber in Boston this past weekend, I was startled by my driver, a jovial man of Afro-Dominican descent—and an immigrant who apparently supports

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The popularity of support animals attests to the mental health benefits of bonding with a pet, such as decreased stress, anxiety, and loneliness.

President Donald J. Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different.  With a touch of