While Donald Trump has often derided the political focus on affordability – even calling it a “con job” — his administration has been trying to capitalize ...

As the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics approach, Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government has ignited a national firestorm by agreeing to accommodate U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump has, for the moment, indicated a willingness to abandon his threat to take over Greenland through military force – saying that he prefers negotiation to invasion. He is, ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in December 2025 announced a research project ...

We seem to be in the midst of a widening crack in the edifice that supports US ideology - denial. Even the most oblivious pundits have been crawling out ...

A few years ago, I wrote in a piece (Can NATO Still Make America Great?—8/28/2017) about the future of NATO that if the trumpists were successful in ...

The murder of Alex Pretti and the backlash Events in Minnesota embody two potential pathways for the future of the U.S., democratic renewal or national ...

Hainan Island is the smallest and southernmost province of China, the only one located fully in the tropics. It provides some of the most fascinating ...

America’s Return to Self‑Defeating Militarism Shortly after the January 3 Venezuelan attack, the U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, boasted, "America is ...

I’m a kindergarten teacher in St. Paul, Minnesota, working hard and contributing to the diverse community I love. But with two children, it’s hard getting ...

Inversion seemed like a fitting description of our upside-down society, but maybe ‘perversion’ is a better word, especially since we have come to ...

The shoes were placed carefully on the frozen sidewalk outside a downtown Minneapolis hotel. Hospital clogs. The kind worn by nurses who work long, ...