In one of his few major accomplishments, President Obama has moved toward normalization of diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba. But Cubans are already suffering such symptoms of “shock capitalism” familiar to 1990s Russia as inflation and food shortages.
North Carolina has passed a law prohibiting cities and counties from protecting the rights of the LGBTQA community, including “bathroom laws” that allow trans people to use bathrooms that correspond to their gender identities. This will, among other things, force trans men to use the ladies’ room.
ISIS-affiliated suicide bombers attacked the passenger terminal at the Brussels International Airport, prompting calls for increased security not just at access points to flights, but at the entrance of the terminals. Where does this ever end?
If the presidential race comes down to a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, American voters will have to choose between a woman who never met a war she didn’t like, and a manic bull in a china shop who could easily start a war by accident.
Who is the one Republican candidate who can defeat Donald Trump? The one who still pretends to be a Democrat.
Following violence at Donald Trump’s raucous rallies, Hillary Clinton says that violence has no place in politics. But what about the violence in hers?
Faced with an intolerable situation like racism and poverty, most people want radical solutions. But supporters of Hillary Clinton say they prefer someone who knows how to work the system to someone who wants to change it completely.
The Pentagon said it would never deploy Predator or Reaper drones in the United States. Now USA Today reveals that they do, and have for years. But not to worry: now the Pentagon says they won’t be used to kill Americans the way they’re used in Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan.
After Bernie Sanders pulled off an upset win in the Michigan Democratic primary, going from a 23 point deficit to a two-point win in 48 hours, analysts began paying attention to the devastating effects of “free trade” agreements like NAFTA, TPP and the WTO in the industrial Midwest. The pundit class may have accepted globalization as inevitable, but the people living in affected areas can’t not remember.
This election season, the presidential candidates won’t show their tax returns, their foreign policy plans, or transcripts of their speeches. But they’re happy to show their long-forms.
