Bringing Unity Back to the UN
In 1945, amid the ruins of World War II, the world came together to found the United Nations (UN), a ...
Opinion
The Politics of Weather: Snow Laughing Matter
Discussing the weather is the archetypal small-talk conversation. I could be talking to someone I see every day, to someone ...
Facebook: The Involuntary Data Hoarder
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook, testified for the second day in front of Congress on April 10. Over ...
The President and Corporations: Late Capitalism Trumps the Environment
President Trump’s announcement of plans to cut the size of two national monuments last December, published on the front page ...
Neither Free Nor Fair: The Problems With Elections
Americans often feel they have one of the strongest functioning democracies in the world. While our country certainly is better ...
The Right to Bear Costs
The trouble with guns and their regulation is that you want to preserve individual liberties, but sometimes people exercise their ...
The Stormy Daniels Distraction
A majority of Americans agree that Donald Trump is a bad role model for children. His policies aside, Trump’s comments ...
Gun Control and Gun Rights 2: Still Missing the Target
Here we go again. Another community shattered by a mass shooting, and like soldiers in World War I, activists on ...
Italian Five Star Movement Dangerously Reproduces the Californian Ideology
Populism has its ebbs and flows, waxes and wanes, but in the last few years, it has found a global ...
A Sinking Feeling in Bangkok
From satellite images and maps, the mesmerizing meanders of the Chao Phraya river and its many splintering canals appear to ...