By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan (*) – Democracy Now! “I’ve personally received more doses of a Covid-19 vaccine than 130 countries,” Dr. Craig Spencer writes, about the two vaccine shots he recently got as an emergency room doctor. In 2014, he contracted ebola while…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya…
By Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal (*) – Boston Review If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions. We live in an era of intersecting crises—some new, some old but newly…
By Christina Zhao* – Newsweek Senators from both sides of the political aisle have signaled that former President Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial could be the shortest in U.S. history, with some expressing hope that the trial could conclude in under one week…
By Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback (*) – Independent Media Institute While the majority of Americans deplored the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, it was troubling to see a YouGov poll indicating that one in five voters approved of the…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Just about every U.S. president promises a new era of U.S. foreign policy. Bush promised to abolish nation building as a goal.
Tom McCarthy* – The Guardian Each US president has charted a unique course after leaving the White House, taking up vocations from philanthropy to human rights to oil painting. Donald Trump’s post-presidency appears likely to be taken up by meetings with lawyers and creditors…
By Gabby Orr, Meridith McGraw and Daniel Lippman (*) – Politico The former president has all but vanished from public view while his former team navigates an unforgiving job market Four days into his post-presidency life, Donald Trump has insulated himself from the outside…
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan(*) – Democracy Now!! President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris leapt into action after taking the oath of office on Wednesday.
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures U.S. foreign policy comes in phases. From the end of World War II to 1972, its goal was to confront the Soviet Union and affiliated communist governments.
