by Jeffrey Kucik | – With the U.S.-China trade war intensifying, there is a lot of talk about whether tariffs save American jobs – as President Donald Trump claims – or destroy them. On May 14, for example, Trump said his tariffs helped save the U.S. steel industry. Whether or not that’s true, many economists […]
You’ll Soon be Driving an Electric Car, but it will be Made in China and You won’t be Great Again
By Jack Barkenbus | – The electric vehicle revolution is coming, but it won’t be driven by the U.S. Instead, China will be at the forefront. My research on EVs, dating back a decade, convinces me that this global transformation in mobility, from petroleum-fueled vehicles to electric ones, will come sooner than later. The shift […]
Are World’s Democracies finally turning on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp/Fox ‘Cancer on Politics?’
By Denis Muller | – There is mounting evidence that Australia is sick of Rupert Murdoch and the political propaganda machine he runs in the guise of a news organisation. In January, [center-left Labor Party leader] Bill Shorten rebuffed an open-ended offer to meet Murdoch whenever the opposition leader was in the United States. According […]
The black Muslim female fashion trailblazers who came before model Halima Aden
By Kayla Renée Wheeler | – Media reports have celebrated Halima Aden becoming the first woman to be featured in the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit edition wearing a hijab or a burkini. In the past, she has appeared on the covers of Allure, British Vogue and Glamour Magazine. Halima Aden, the first Muslim model to […]
Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon
By Ken Hughes | – Like Donald Trump, Richard Nixon tried to stonewall congressional investigations into crimes allegedly committed in the White House. “Why, we’ll just let it go to the (Supreme) Court. Fight it like hell,” Nixon said. But the stone wall crumbled under pressure from the public, Congress and the courts, and its […]
We are about to drive 1 million species to extinction w/out a Revolution in our relationship with Nature
By Michelle Lim | – We are witnessing the loss of biodiversity at rates never before seen in human history. Nearly a million species face extinction if we do not fundamentally change our relationship with the natural world, according to the world’s largest assessment of biodiversity. Last week, in the culmination of a process involving […]
Don’t Even Bother: Why Trump’s Israel-Palestine “Deal” is Dead on Arrival
By Dov Waxman | – Dead on arrival. That’s what almost every expert predicts will be the fate of the Trump administration’s long-awaited peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As the author of the new book, “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know,” I share this view. Low expectations Developed in secrecy for […]
White Nationalism is a Lost Cause in an Increasingly Rainbow America
By Dudley Poston | – Since the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the Colonial period, the U.S. has been predominantly white. But the white share of the U.S. population has been dropping, from a little under 90% in 1950 to 60% in 2018. It will likely drop below 50% in another […]
Why did the Trump Admin. Obstruct UN Resolution against War Rape that Amal Clooney Supported?
By J.M. Opal| – Last week, the U.S. used the threat of its veto power and generalized clout to weaken a United Nations Security Council resolution against rape in war zones. The watered-down version, which passed on April 23, excludes all references to sexual and reproductive health. The issue, apparently, was that the resolution mentioned […]
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