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Trump should care about the Ivory Coast’s democracy

The Ivory Coast/Côte d’Ivoire is an African success story. Two decades ago, it faced civil war but emerged stronger than ever after one of the United Nations‘s only successful peacekeeping missions. Between 2021 and 2024, its economy’s growth met or surpassed 6%, far above the global average. As regional countries’ leaders fell to coups, religious […]

America’s fraught history with antisemitism

Talk about good timing. Antisemitism, an American Tradition, a powerful new book by American University professor Pamela Nadell, has just been published. The book comes at a time when certain sectors of America have become feverish with hatred towards Jewish people. Antisemitism, An American Tradition goes from colonial America to the modern day, offering a shameful history […]

Taliban’s global influence grows amid Pakistan skirmishes

Last week, Pakistani drones struck targets inside the Afghan capital of Kabul and at a bazaar in Afghanistan’s Paktika province. The strikes targeted the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan terrorist group, with the TTP stating that two “important” members had been killed. Prior to the drone strike, TTP members attacked and killed 11 Pakistani military personnel in northern Pakistan on […]

With Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Netflix revels in darkness

Netflix’s Monster series began with ambition. The Jeffrey Dahmer season wasn’t an easy watch, but it asked important questions: How did police and parents miss so many warning signs? Why were victims and witnesses ignored? It was disturbing, yes, but it had purpose. The Menendez brothers’ season also went beyond the headline-grabbing trials to explore family dysfunction, […]

With executive orders, who needs Congress anymore?

The U.S. Congress has gradually ceded its powers to the president, resulting in a weakened legislative branch and a shift in the balance of powers.

Speaker Johnson embraces Freedom Caucus tactics in shutdown fight

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is championing the kind of hardline stances in the government shutdown fight long favored by the House Freedom Caucus. The Speaker has canceled previously scheduled votes in the lower chamber and kept the House in extended recess as he aims to put maximum pressure on Senate Democrats to accept the “clean” stopgap to re-open...

Trump knocks Time over ‘super bad’ photo with ‘relatively good story about me’

President Trump criticized Time Magazine early Tuesday over its new cover photo of him, shot from below, so that his neck is featured prominently and light from the sun makes the wisps of hair above his forehead appear transparent. The president, on his Truth Social platform, said that while the outlet’s story on his administration’s...

26 years of dictatorship and narcoterrorism in Venezuela are about to end

This war on drugs is just beginning and it is not like Richard Nixon’s public enemy number one strategy or Ronald Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign.

Idaho leads the way: Bring back the firing squad

The firing squad is now Idaho's primary method of execution. Other states should follow suit. 

Mills enters Maine Senate race, teeing up Democratic proxy battle

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Tuesday formally launched her bid to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), teeing up the latest high-profile primary to pit establishment and populist factions of the Democratic Party against each other. Mills launched her campaign after much prodding from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). But prominent progressives like Sen....

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