On March 6, 2019 the Lava Jato taskforce announced that the US DOJ was transferring 80% of the fines it levied against Petrobras to the Brazilian Public ...

Has Donald Trump's sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments immediately sparked two opposing views: for some ...

A simple, lonely grave behind the Nieuwe Kerk in the centre of The Hague is a monument to Baruch de Spinoza. Only very determined admirers visit from time ...

The military operates behind our backs,” says Pedro Uc Be. “We know they will start mining, but they work in darkness, and ...

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Even though most of us think of healthcare as a human right, the reality is that in the United States the provision of ...

Make America Great Again has become Make America Meh. In the richest nation on earth, some priorities get the full measure, ...

On October 30th, Peggy Noonan, one-time primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986, now a regular opinion ...

Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect.  Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the forced ...

I confess to being very much a non-expert on AI. I read pieces in the business press and random articles that more ...

In the wake of two years of the globally broadcast extermination of the people of Palestine, three distinct tracks of international response have emerged. One is grounded in justice, international law ...

The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched ...