At best, the U.S. and China will avoid a major blow-up over Taiwan or the South China Sea in 2023, while making progress on issues like climate change and drug trafficking. At worst, the two great powers could take the world to hell and back.
Karl Marx started out in a liberal milieu where the primary concern was abolishing religious authoritarianism. In time, he came to believe that abolishing capitalism was necessary for true freedom — and that only the working class could do it.
Gaza is being devastated as we watch. A stated goal of Israel’s assault, is to “destroy Hamas”. Israel’s goal is less to vanquish Hamas—impossible in any case—than to finally expel Palestinians from Gaza without international censure or sanction.
If we want to build a strong, safe world for pregnant people and our families, let’s start with a floor we can all stand on. Policies that claim to keep the government out of abortion are being written to criminalize abortion later in pregnancy.
Signs that MAGA is enmeshed in post-Vietnam War culture begin with its namesake. Make America Great Again is an adoption of Ronald Reagan’s assertion that it was “Morning in America Again,” - the country was moving on from its Vietnam War nightmare.
It will probably come as a surprise to many of you that religious and church life in Cuba is thriving, and has been since the 1990s. It’s time for the U.S. to correct our own errors there.
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"I believe that slaughter cannot solve slaughter," said 18-year-old Tal Mitnick, who was sentenced to 30 days behind bars for refusing to participate in what a fellow draft resister called a "genocide" in Gaza.
The former South Carolina governor instead said it was a dispute over how ‘government was going to run.’
Stung by the 2008 oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. Can other countries follow suit?
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