Sunday, May 5, 2024

Friday’s Events: The Legacy and Rules of American Foreign Policy and 21 Questions for...

The United States is great at focusing on any sort of carnage and blaming ISIS, one of hundreds of groups in Syria, and building alliances with Sunni states.

What is the World? Who are We? What are We Going to do About...

We are better people, individually and collectively, when we reject hubris and embrace humility, and we stand a better chance of making real progress when we better understand the world and our place in it.

Did Melania Trump Plagiarize Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC Address?

Melania Told NBC news she wrote the speech with “as little help as possible.”

Inside The Delegate Revolt At The RNC

Delegates say they were Intimidated and strong-armed on the convention floor.

Justice Ginsburg’s Gaffe – She Spoke the Truth

Her comments may have been "inappropriate," but they weren't wrong, and her views highlight the fallacy of a judiciary free of political judgment.

Heirloom Non-GMO Corn Is Helping Sustain Mexico’s Heritage and Farmers

Mexico, particularly the southern state of Oaxaca, is known as the birthplace of corn.

Writing as Resistance

Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning.

The Trojan Drone

An Illegal Military Strategy Disguised as Technological Advance

NationofChange at the Republican Convention: And So it Begins – Protests, Rallies Take Cleveland

From "Open Carry" rallies to Stand for Love, the Republican Convention (and all the demonstrations that go with it) is in full swing.

Five Conspirators in the Eradication of the Middle Class

Meet the kingpins, the enforcers, the illusionists, the con men, and the hitmen that are all working together to eradicate the middle class.