Tag: society
When politicians turn immigration into a ‘crisis,’ entire societies suffer
A look at Sicily, where political restrictions on immigration are taking their toll on local residents as well as immigrants.
Let’s find many ways to share the goods of our society
Ideas can improve society. But they can also be destructive.
What a society designed for well-being looks like
Economic justice goes a long way toward improving mental health up and down the socioeconomic ladder.
Thieves in the suites
After all, some of society's most inventive minds are flimflammers, Ponzi-schemers, gamers and embezzlers.
Our racial and ethnic roots in all their tangled diversity are...
Trumpian white supremacy has it all wrong.
Signs of a Dying Society
While Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and John Kiriakou are vilified for revealing vital information about spying and bombing and torture, a man who...
The Many Ways Women Are Beaten Down in America
Despite all the successes of women, such as earning the right to economic equality, the white male establishment has prevailed. Are women still second-rate members of society today?
Watching as the Fabric Holding This Society Together Unravels
A society is supposed to bond together for the common good, but lately violence is all that the U.S. is seeing. Political, social, and racial negativity is responsible for this violent epidemic and it needs to end now.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.