Politics

Imagine being forced to leave everything behind, your home, your family, your dreams, because US sanctions have devastated your country’s economy, making day-to-day living increasingly unbearable. You endure a treacherous journey, risking everything for a chance at stability and to…

Since its independence in 1962, the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria has adopted a whole series of constitutions that, sometimes amended or supplemented, have governed the country’s political system. The unitary state has brilliantly failed since independence. Find another form…

Read the full transcript of Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ speech in the European Parliament at an event titled “The Geopolitics of Peace”, hosted by former UN Assistant Secretary General and current BSW MEP Michael von der Schulenburg, on February 19, 2025.…

Thirty-nine years ago, the People Power Revolution—the nonviolent uprising that ended the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos—marked a turning point in Philippine history. In 1983, dictator Ferdinand Marcos, backed by the U.S., ordered the assassination of his rival Benigno Aquino and…

I just got a 3D printer, and now I need to understand the Z-axis. After years of working with 2D printing, I am now exploring this new possibility and trying to take advantage of this “third dimension” in printing. It’s a…

A lot of my liberal friends don’t recognize the unprecedented advantage President Trump is affording all Americans. By his imaginative executive order to ignore court decisions, he permits all of us to do the same, releasing us from the ethical…

The US could move its nascent “New Détente” with Russia further along by either forcing the G7 and UNGA Resolution sponsors to change their language about “Russian aggression” or refusing to attach its name to their respective documents on the…

Regardless of how geostrategically important the relationship is between the Arab states and the US, the former must demonstrate unanimous resolve to oppose Trump’s and Netanyahu’s disastrous plans to take over Gaza and exile the Indigenous Palestinians. Given Egypt’s desire…

Days after November’s Trump/MAGA election victory, a senior Russian diplomat asked how great a historical transformation it signaled. Was it the equivalent of the Civil War, or the Depression era New Deal? Soon it was clear. Jamille Bouie wrote in…

At last Leonard Peltier is free and at home. This is one of the first photos to arrive where he is with his family and friends from the committee that always defended him and called for his release. Peltier was…