Most of us know what the Ukrainian flag looks like now after a month of wall-to-wall coverage of Russia's onslaught against Ukraine.
A month ago the only ones who knew the name "Volodymyr Zelenskyy" were probably...
If you have been paying attention to media coverage of the Ukraine/Russia crisis, you may have noticed what looks like a capital letter "Z" painted on Russian convoy vehicles.
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That mysterious symbol is also showing up...
“I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this."
This is what United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said after reading a new report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
Protectionist trade policies aren't just good for American jobs.
They're good for national security.
As tensions heat up between the United States and China over Taiwanese independence, it's time re-evaluate who supplies us with the goods on...
The "Conference of the Parties" (COP) 26 United Nations Climate Conference is to begin in Glasgow, Scotland next week.
But unlike previous climate conferences, this one comes with a “code red for humanity.”
Unless nations arrive with plans...
For the first time in United States history, someone sentenced to prison was prosecuted not by the US Justice Dept. (DOJ) but by an attorney working for a private corporation.
In the 1990s, human rights lawyer...
"What the hell are we doing here?"
That's the question Democratic California Congresswoman Maxine Waters exclaimed last week in response to images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping Haitian asylum seekers who have been...
What is the greatest threat to global public health?
Many will argue it's COVID-19.
That's a reasonable claim since, as of this writing, there are 41,645,545 total confirmed cases in the United States alone, and 666,806 Americans...
It was the end of period three, the last of three classes in a row before I had a break.
The teaching assistant assigned to some students in that class walked up to me at the...
Predictably, republicans and the corporate for-profit media pandering to them are tripping over themselves in piling on critiques of President Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan evacuation.
Some of the right-wing media headlines range from "Biden...
After Democratic backlash ensued regarding the Biden administration’s decision to maintain the Trump-era cap on refugees permitted to enter the United States, the White House increased the cap.
President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress was...
For all the impressive ways Joe Biden has begun his first two and a half months in office, we must remember the ship of state is not a speedboat.
It's more like an ocean liner.
Reversing decades...
When the world shut down last year for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, something happened to the air.
It got cleaner.
According to Global Carbon Project researchers, carbon emissions dropped by 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 due to reduced...
Joe Biden is wasting no time distinguishing himself from Donald Trump.
While he has the potential to become “the most progressive president since FDR,” as Bernie Sanders insisted, and while we have a duty to push...
Although the lamest of lame ducks, Donald Trump still possesses the enormous power we entrusted him with four years ago.
One of the most awesome (and monarchical) powers the Constitution entrusts to the president is the...
Is anyone surprised Russian hackers appear responsible for the worst US government cyber attack in history?
Is anyone surprised Donald Trump is downplaying it?
Last week news broke about suspected Russian government hackers infiltrating computer systems for...
How many more catastrophic tipping points are we going to surpass?
How much worse does the weather have to get before we wake up to the destruction we are inflicting on the environment?
Even a half-degree temperature...
There’s been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a pangolin?
Was it...
There's been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a...
While the media diverted some attention away from reporting on the Black Lives Matter protests and the spike in coronavirus cases to focus on Donald Trump's underwhelming Tulsa, Okla. rally on Saturday, two nuclear superpowers...
