Thursday, March 28, 2024

Why getting Congress to fund help for US children in poverty is so hard...

The Build Back Better bill, the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s domestic policy, cleared the House of Representatives by a slender margin...

Clean energy grows, but many of the poorest remain in the dark

World Bank reports “a race” underway to secure sustainable energy, but a money gap leaves poorer nations – particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa – lagging.

Throwing in the Towel

What the Bankruptcy of White House Policy Means for the Israelis and Palestinians.

To clean up the planet, clean up Washington

Doing so will remove long standing barriers that have slowed and blunted climate action.

Can Trump actually cut (good) deals on diplomacy?

From North Korea to Russia to the Middle East, there's no shortage of deal-making needed. But beware the fine print of anything with Trump's insignia.

A Washington echo chamber for a New Cold War

War: what is it good for? Apparently, in Washington’s world of think tanks, the answer is: the bottom line.

If Trump really only wants ‘No Iranian nukes,’ then he should just rejoin the...

So if what Trump wanted was “no nukes,” then he already had that in the form of the JCPOA, which he has tried to destroy!

How America Invites Terrorism

Maybe it's time we inform our soldiers of their likely roles in the killing machine, because war does not bring freedom. Instead, it invites young men and women to start on their own personal worlds of terror.

States expanding opportunity through wealth taxes

States from Hawaii to Connecticut responded to extreme wealth concentration this year by expanding taxes on the assets of the very wealthy...

Truth: The first casuality in trade debates

There is a lot of money at stake in getting Congress to approve the deal and they have no intention of letting the truth get in the way.