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Are we doomed to fight?

Posted January 11, 202300:50:40

The past week has been filled with images of high conflict. There was the shocking violent right-wing attacks on government institutions in Brazil,...

Sen. Patrick Leahy passes the gavel after a half-century

Posted January 5, 202300:55:08

On Tuesday, Sen. Patrick Leahy ended his remarkable 48-year career as the senator from Vermont.

Leahy was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974 at...

The last American newspaper

Posted December 21, 202200:51:40

As one news outlet after another downsizes and closes, who is going to do the journalism in the future?


That’s the question asked...

Greed is not good — Jon Erickson on building an economics of prosperity

Posted December 14, 202200:49:20

“Greed is good.”

That idea was famously uttered by a fictional stockbroker named Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie...

‘Dictator Hunter’ Reed Brody on his global quest to bring tyrants to justice

Posted December 7, 202200:53:15

International human rights lawyer Reed Brody has been dubbed the “Dictator Hunter.” He has helped pursue and bring to justice notorious dictators...