Thursday, July 9, 2026

Warren rolls out plan she calls ‘most sweeping set of anti-corruption reforms since watergate’

Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with "big, structural...

Paris: Beirut in the Heart of Europe?

Like in Beirut, Paris has experienced “a war without rules, a war of attrition, a war aimed at states in which stateless killers target civilians.” We need to stand with Paris during this crucial time and vanquish terrorism.

The final Obama doctrine? Racking up the body count

Obama officials have repeatedly expressed a commitment to killing large numbers of ISIS fighters. Will Trump take it even further?

Iran’s ‘Tea Party’ moment?

Responsibility for the unrest ultimately lies with the country’s government.

2016 as prologue, not aberration

Our media is strangling our democracy, and without a course correction it will only get worse.

Priceless teaching moments from the last five presidencies, especially today’s craziest, most corrosive

Character matters because that’s the best future predictor; career success matters because past is prologue; competence matters because gross negligence is catastrophic.

Lack of media urgency over GOP efforts to steal 2024 elections

One of the “most consistent criticisms of the political press from the left these days is that it treats politics and policy as ‘normal’ when the United States is facing an unprecedented crisis of democracy.”

Crypto kickback: GOP bill boosts Trump family wealth as corruption claims mount

Trump’s $TRUMP coin dinner, Abu Dhabi deals, and a fast-tracked Senate crypto bill raise alarms over corruption and billionaire influence.
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Suppressed 2020: The fight to vote

Amidst a global health crisis, the cruel weaponization of vote-by-mail restrictions has turned the constitutional right to vote into a choice between life and death.

“No friends, but the mountains:” Understanding Turkey’s Syrian invasion

One can say with certainty that life is difficult for the Kurdish people – perpetual minorities who live in a mountainous region split between Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.