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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Trump’s “Consistent” Views on Federal Reserve Head Jerome Powell and the Wealth of the Wealthiest
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...
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...
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...
Should We Garden Our Forests?
Thinning is essentially “gardening” the forest–selecting which trees are winners and which are losers. Photo by George Wuerthner. A new study published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management “Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape,...
Trump’s “Consistent” Views on Federal Reserve Head Jerome Powell and the Wealth of the Wealthiest
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...