Photo by Eric Brehm “The whole world has decided that the U.S. government has no idea what it’s doing.” – Mark Blyth, “Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers,” (New York Times, April 14, 2025.) Professor Mark Blyth’s remarks were aimed at the Trump administration’s...
Image, Wikicommons. Actor and comedian Seth Rogen spoke for millions of Americans when he ascended the stage alongside Edward Norton earlier this month at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony and delivered a pointed jab at President Trump. Rogen criticized the tech titans...
Getty and Unsplash+. Amid Russian attacks on Ukraine, genocide in Gaza, and civil wars in Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, violence persists in corners of our world unfamiliar to most Americans. At home, on the other hand, the Trump administration liquidated the voting board...
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Trump’s tariffs and war on free trade signal the end of an experiment in globalism that began in the 1990s with NAFTA and the breakup of the Soviet Union. Yet the question is whether this is a new stage for...
Incumbent Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa of the National Democratic Action Party took 56% of the vote in the second round of elections taking place on April 13. With 95% of the votes counted, Luisa González, candidate of the social democratic Citizens’ Revolution...
Image by Osarugue Igbinoba. The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world — including nine Americans — expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy...
Yangshan containership terminal. Photo: Bruno Corpet (Quoique). CC BY-SA 3.0 When Donald Trump pulled back on his plan to impose eye-watering tariffs on trading partners across the world, there was one key exception: China. While the rest of the world would be given a...
Photo by Markus Spiske Your community needs leaders who care about the environment. As climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity threaten our planet’s health, we can’t afford to wait for governments or corporations to solve these problems. We need...
Uncle Sam Postcard – Public Domain Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people-friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now passed bills that do that...
Photograph Source: Xuthoria – CC BY-SA 4.0 Nearing the end of his first term, on September 18, 2020, Pres. Donald Trump invoked the “racehorse theory” at a campaign rally in Bemidji, MN, to claim that he and his followers had genetically superior bloodlines. “You...
Illustration of what an extinct Ise Age dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) may have looked like, based on mounted fossil material from the tar pits at Rancho La Brea, California. Illustration by Laura Cunningham Copyright 2025. In early April, Colossal Laboratories &...
Photo by Jan Kopřiva Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous materials is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history and is evident among prehistoric artifacts, ancient civilizations, and...