Image by Morgan Housel. The head of the Federal Reserve Board has been viewed as the second most powerful person in the government. In theory, this person heads the body that oversees the country’s monetary policy with the power to set interest rates, which shapes the...
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In the Spirit of BRICS, Criminal Defendant Jair Bolsonaro Should be Immediately be Transferred to China: a Modest Proposal
Photograph Source: Isac Nóbrega/PR – CC BY 2.0 In one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of international trade, President Donald Trump this week announced that 50% tariffs would be imposed on Brazil—a country that has a trade surplus with the United States...
Trump’s Cuba Memorandum Provokes Strong Criticism Amid New US Aggressiveness Abroad
Photograph Source: hakkun – CC BY-SA 3.0 The Trump administration on June 30 released its “National Security Presidential Memorandum 5” on U.S. plans for Cuba. Criticism from Cuba’s government and international commentators welled up, as if entirely new forms of...
Trump Confuses Telling Blatant Lies With a Straight Face With Competence
Image Source: United States Government – Public Domain We all know and expect that a president’s top appointees are picked in large part because of their willingness to carry out a president’s agenda. But usually these are people with some experience in the areas that...
Five Key Lessons from Mamdani’s Startling NYC Win
Photograph Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority – CC BY 2.0 In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. Early polls showed Mamdani starting his...
Reject Jillian Segal’s racist, colonialist pro-genocide plan
Jillian Segal, with Labor's support, wants to make it harder for people to oppose genocide and Zionism. Jonathan Strauss argues that this racist plan needs to be rejected.
Labor must abandon AUKUS now
Anthony Albanese is failing to win people to Labor’s commitment to the US on AUKUS which, as Peter Boyle argues, explains why the PM was less than honest in his John Curtain Oration speech.
L’Italia ha un anno per non perdere i fondi europei
Il paese fatica a rispettare le scadenze e solo una piccola percentuale delle nuove opere pubbliche è stata completata. Il videoreportage. Leggi
A che punto è la legge italiana sulle ia?
Il testo è un compendio di buoni propositi. Ma i principi enunciati non sono accompagnati da definizioni operative o da criteri certi. Leggi
Learning the Right Lessons From Britain’s Response to 7/7
On July 7, 2005, four young men carried out coordinated suicide bombings on London’s public transport system, killing 52 people and injuring over 700. The attackers weren’t foreign operatives; they were British citizens. The shock was profound. The country mourned,...
La justicia transicional, el gran reto de la transición siria
Con más de 100.000 personas desaparecidas y decenas de miles de muertos, la población siria busca justicia mientras el país echa a andar. Temas: Global, Siria, Oriente Medio, JusticiaLeer artículo completo
Si México fuera verde: niñas madres, leyes muertas y la lucha por decidir
La viralización de la información sobre partos infantiles revela la realidad de una violencia ignorada en un marco legislativo que obliga a actuarTemas: Actualidad, México, Aborto, Abusos a la infanciaLeer artículo completo