On January 1, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) conducted aerial bombing and strafing of the indigenous Mangyan-Iraya ...
For much of the last half-century, the study of global exchange rates has been treated as a branch of physics. In the ...
Before I go further here, let me qualify everything I’m saying here with a warning: I have no crystal ball from which to give ...
On the evening of January 8, a friend and I parked our car in Minneapolis' Powderhorn neighborhood, where Renee Good—a white, ...
They came in the night after Assad fled,” said Mohammed, a resident of Kodena, a small village perched upon rolling hills of ...
I learned one of my most valuable lessons about U.S. power in my first year as a Brown University doctoral student. It was in anthropology professor ...
He broke it! He did not wait for permission to change things. He simply bent and, in most cases, broke it. If the answer was going to be no, why wait for the no is his strategy. The strategy is to ...
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ICE as Paramilitaries

ICE agents’ aggressive tactics in arresting people in their homes, workplaces, and from their cars have sparked nationwide protests, as they appear to be ...
The only remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, NewSTART, expires on February 5, 2026. Russia withdrew from NewSTART in 2023, but has ...
For years, the world has treated Africa’s health emergencies as episodic tragedies rather than the predictable outcomes of chronic neglect. Pledges of aid ...
One can hope that the tyranny that is settling in on America will cause a critical mass of the American people to engage in some serious soul-searching ...
Let's be clear about this thing called "international law." There are laws and treaties and agreements on the books which are designed to hold power to ...