Just last month, proposals led by Representatives Mark Pocan in the House and Bernie Sanders in the Senate to decrease the U.S. military budget by 10% and redirect the $74 billion acquired to coronavirus relief failed to pass through Congress.…
Up until a few weeks ago, you could split the world into three groups: countries which willingly accepted face masks, those who were not too certain of it, and the countries who didn’t like the idea at all. However, the…
Kentucky House Representative Charles Booker surged into the US national spotlight in June with an unapologetically leftist campaign for the Kentucky Senate Democratic nomination. His progressive platform, which garnered high-profile endorsements from Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and House…
Late this past June, the Princeton University Board of Trustees voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its Public Policy school. The decision makers cited this “searing moment in American History” (i.e. the fallout from the George Floyd shooting) as a wakeup call for…
In a time as unprecedented as the one we are currently living through – from the Covid-19 pandemic to nationwide Black Lives Matter protests – it is sometimes easy to forget a presidential election is fast approaching. What’s more, given…
Something has changed. The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis as an event is distinct from its all too common predecessors in that its sheer clear cut brutality has altered the debate from a question of whether to hold the…
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s horrifying murder at the hands of several US policemen, a widespread sense of righteous anger burned through the minds of many and reinvigorated debates over racism at the level of politics, culture, and individual…
Outrage, grief and fury. Even these words do not suffice in describing the political climate in America following the death of George Floyd, an African American who died after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on Floyd’s neck until Floyd…
Remember John Bolton? The fearsome-looking former national security advisor in Trump’s cabinet who was abruptly sacked (like so many) a couple of months ago? Given the recent global protests and pandemic, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that his self-penned account…
The murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer who knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes has triggered protests across the US and UK. So far, people have taken to the streets for the…