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With the hard right running left and the center-left abdicating, Euroskeptics could accelerate a continent-wide crisis. Global migration is on the rise as climate change drowns coastlines, river deltas and drought drives people out of arid climates.

A call for diplomacy and deescalation, not economic and military confrontation. We should prioritize the fight for a 180-degree turnaround in the U.S. stance toward China - that diplomacy and negotiation replace trade wars and military encirclement.

We spend $32 million per hour on wars started during the Bush administration. The economic costs of the war on terror has cost Americans a staggering $5.6 trillion since 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.

What hope is there that one of the Democrats seeking the presidency in 2020 could be a real peace candidate? Could one of them bring an end to these wars and prevent new ones? Walk back the brewing Cold War and arms race with Russia and China?

Gaza, SE Europe, Algeria, Italy: Sexist International Protested, Haiti, Sudan, Turkey, Thailand

Consolidation has meant more patients and fewer nurses to treat them. Medical staff are expected to do more than ever and to do it quicker.

Tuesday night’s elections saw the largest socialist electoral victory in modern American history

The highest-ranking countries in the World Happiness Report are those that have “strong social welfare systems and an emphasis on equality.”

Net Neutrality; Phone spying; Digital divides; Local news is dying; Screens that kidnap; Tech platforms and terrorism