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Pricey Alliance: How Trump is Nailing European NATO Members to the Wall
NATO members express deep concerns about the future of the alliance amid Washington’s row over the EU’s failure to meet the 2 percent of GDP NATO requirement and Donald Trump’s…
Fighting for Survival: Whither Modern Civilization?
A red alert in an age of fear, anger and extremes In anticipation of its 2018 edition, the well-regarded Munich Security Conference issued a report which aimed to serve as…
Fighting for Survival: Whither Modern Civilization?
Quoting the following message delivered by the newly elected United Nations Secretary-general António Guterres, the epigraph to the very first article of the report clearly nailed the colors to the mast: “When…
The unexpected link between social status and generosity
People with less are likely to give more. “Lower status” individuals share their wealth more so than their “higher status” counterparts, according to a study from the Queen Mary University…
Are engagement rings passé?
Young lovestruck couples still mark their engagements with diamonds. But should they find a less expensive way to start their lives together? Chance the Rapper proposed to his girlfriend Kirsten…
In One Chart: Are engagement rings passé?
Young lovestruck couples still mark their engagements with diamonds. But should they find a less expensive way to start their lives together? Chance the Rapper proposed to his girlfriend Kirsten…
Canadian cannabis workers targeted by U.S. border guards for lifetime bans
VANCOUVER—As tensions between Canada and the U.S. have risen in recent months, a quieter, slower-burning conflict has been developing along the border: Canadians associated with the cannabis industry — even…
One Woman’s Quest to Fight Gentrification by Asking Residents How
Cities all over the country are struggling with gentrification, and how to welcome new residents and new development without displacing longtime members of the community. One housing advocacy group in Portland,…
Yes, There’s a Wealth Gap, Here’s Why
You probably have not heard of Dr. Olivia Hooker, who is a spry 103 years of age. She is also the last known survivor of the infamous Tulsa Race Riot…
Trump and Mexico’s New Leader, Both Headstrong, Begin With a ‘Good Conversation’
President Trump reached out to Mexico’s new populist president-elect on Monday in an early, but potentially short-lived, show of détente, saying the two leaders engaged in a “good conversation” about…
The US Stopped Other Countries from Legalizing Weed for Generations
With its decision to legalize weed starting on October 17, Canada has effectively signed a death warrant for pot prohibition worldwide. The United States has long been the world’s drug cop, but…
Big Tips or Higher Minimum Wage?
A coalition of civic leaders, restaurant owners and servers have slammed “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker after she and other actors urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo last March…
Janus v. Black Families
As I was preparing to start my new teaching job at San Diego State University in the fall of 2007, I got a call from my father. It was an…
House Republican Expands Attack on Environmental Groups’ Global Work
A top congressional Republican is ratcheting up his campaign against prominent U.S. environmental organizations, an effort critics are likening to a return of McCarthyism. So far, House Natural Resources Committee…
Support Staff Unionize at Two Veterinary Hospitals
Support staff at two West Coast veterinary specialty hospitals have voted to join labor unions, an unusual development for a profession in which collective bargaining has been, up to now,…
You may be more elite than you think
My Lords and Ladies: If you have not yet read Matthew Stewart’s cover story in the June issue of The Atlantic on the rise of the new American aristocracy, I beseech…
Senior Scholar: Abu Ghraib US Human Rights Scandal with Living Legacy
It was Abu Ghraib prison that introduced the world to the violent infrastructure of torture in the war on terror. In 2004, when photos emerged documenting extensive torture ranging from prisoners on…
A number of analysts tell VOA News there could still be a Trump-Kim summit soon
“Don’t cancel your reservations for Singapore just yet,” former U.S. deputy secretary of state Anthony Blinken told VOA’s Korean Service. “This is unlikely to be the final word. President Trump…
North Korea Willing to Talk to US ‘At Any Time’
WHITE HOUSE — North Korea said Friday that it was still willing to sit for talks with the United States “at any time, (in) any format,’’ after President Donald called off…
Rob Schofield: A simple, moral and business-friendly step to boost the economy
There are a lot of important statistics that confirm just how out of whack the U.S. economy has grown during this modern Gilded Age we currently inhabit, but two factoids…
Forbes | The 50th year as a Jubilee
Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor preached a sermon at New York’s Riverside Church entitled, “The Second Coming of Christ.” He explained that perhaps we should not be eager for the second…
The Missing Link in the Gun Debate
America is up in arms about guns. If last month’s “March for Our Lives,” which attracted over one million marchers nationwide, is any indication, we’ve got a serious problem with…
The trouble with charitable billionaires
In February 2017, Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in the headlines for his charitable activities. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, founded by the tech billionaire and his wife, Priscilla…
Fortune 500 CEOs are paid from double to 5,000 times more than their employees
Transparency on executive pay shows how the other half lives. Chief executive pay in the U.S. is among the highest in the world, according to a new report by the…
Hart Cunningham Discusses Economic Inequality in America
More than 40 million Americans live in poverty, according to the 2016 US Census. Put in perspective, the collective wealth of 50% of the US population isn’t as much as that of…
We need to fight segregated schools to reform the education system
“In education, America does everything but equity.” With these words, Failing Brown v. Board, a new report from the civil rights group Journey for Justice Alliance, makes plain how the machine…
The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy
1. The Aristocracy Is Dead … For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America’s fading aristocracies. Sometimes around Christmas, more often…
What it pays to be at the top: A look at the salaries of local CEOs
Public companies have long been required to tell investors how much they pay their top executives but, starting this year, that information must be paired with another disclosure — how…
With Unemployment So Low Why are Wages Stagnant?
If the unemployment rate is so low why have wages for most Americans failed to go up very much recently? The simple answer is for the very same reasons why…
Will North Korea and the US Find Trust?
n the first segment Suzanne Gordon, Author of The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare joins the show to talk about the efforts to privatize Veteran’s Affairs healthcare under the Trump administration, the likelihood former Congressman Jeff Miller will…
