Members of the “The Iraq Campaign 2008” hold a large replica of the “Mission Accomplished” banner on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, DC May 1, 2008, marking the fifth anniversary […]
BY THOMAS KNAPP Photograph Source: Roger Higgins – Public Domain The case, many say, is long closed. It’s been 70 years since the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of spying for the Soviet […]
BY JULIA GLEDHILL – WILLIAM D. HARTUNG Photo by Erwan Hesry On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government’s debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was — surprise, surprise! — […]
BY KATHY KELLY Photo Credit: Hellenic Coast Guard Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan couple, Frishta and Mohammad, and their […]
BY DAVID SCHULTZ Photograph Source: Chad Davis – CC BY 2.0 Two recent reports describe challenges for policing specifically for Minneapolis and Minnesota more generally. The first report was the Department of Justice’s Report on policing in Minneapolis which […]
BY KARY LOVE It does appear America has gone insane. Kids shoot up their schools and kill their classmates. Other kids steal Kias and Hyundais and drive ’em like crazy people, damaging more property and injuring […]
BY NILOFAR SUHRAWARDY Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Notwithstanding the diplomatic importance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit (June 20-24) from the Indian perspective, one is compelled to deliberate on it from […]
BY NORMAN SOLOMON Photograph Source: Cmichel67 – CC BY-SA 4.0 When Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday, the world lost a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful ethos of compassion and resolve. Ellsberg’s renown for openly challenging the mentalities […]
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photo by Alec Favale Artificial intelligence (AI) and how it’s going to change the world is a popular topic of conversation these days. There is concern that it will generate ever-more deceptive imagery that can upend […]
BY RALPH NADER Photograph Source: Universal Studios, NBCUniversal – Public Domain Rick Claypool is a level-headed policy analyst and number-cruncher for Public Citizen, who is known for reporting the decline in corporate crime enforcement with each […]