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.
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.
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.
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The highest-ranking countries in the World Happiness Report are those that have “strong social welfare systems and an emphasis on equality.”
Tuesday night’s elections saw the largest socialist electoral victory in modern American history
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.
U.S. assistance has caused great harm in Central America. But Trump’s decision to cut it off is nothing to celebrate. He seeks to deprive Central Americans of all options, suffocating legal pathways to migration, while cutting much needed resources.
On a bus in the West Bank, fearing for our lives, this 13-year-old boy taught me the true power of empathy
City residents, said the judge, "could have taken protective measures, if only they had known what the Governor knew. Instead, the Governor misled them into assuming that nothing was wrong."
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