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Sun, February 5, 2023 | 16:26

Trump has offered to negotiate peace in Ukraine, but he is no Wendell Willkie

Former President Donald Trump has offered to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, a bizarre concept that illustrates just how far America has fallen from the days when leaders of both major parties collaborated to support global democracy.

2022-10-26 13:54

Little inflation help from other side

Little inflation help from other side

President Joe Biden and his designated message-deliverers just got some crucial, last-minute insights - from a most unlikely source - on the night of Oct. 19. It made clear how they should be talking about the only issue that almost half of Americans say they really care about in this all-over-the-lot midterm campaign.

2022-10-25 14:11

The West has failed - North Korea is a nuclear state

The world might not want to hear it, but Kim Jong-un might be right.

2022-10-25 14:09

In China, Xi Jinping is getting unprecedented third term. What should the world expect?

The 104-minute speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the country's 20th party congress reveals a leader who believes he is on a historic mission to save China's self-described socialism in the 21st century.

2022-10-24 13:39

Putin's nuclear threats and strikes on civilians rule out negotiations or off-ramp

Putin's nuclear threats and strikes on civilians rule out negotiations or off-ramp

On Oct. 11 morning, as news broke of Russia's vicious missile strikes on civilian targets all across Ukraine, I texted a friend in the badly hit city of Kharkiv.

2022-10-23 17:00

Washington is neglecting a key national security threat

At the Global Fund Seventh Replenishment Conference last month, President Joe Biden pledged $6 billion in U.S. funding to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and strengthen health systems worldwide. The announcement is a welcome sign of the administration's continued interest in global health as attention to the COVID-19 pandemic wanes. But despite this and other recent com...

2022-10-23 17:00

Starbucks violated our workplace rights

In February, Starbucks fired us for trying to unionize, but our work never stopped. Now, we are known as the Memphis 7. Starbucks' illegal retaliation against us was meant to make an example of workers who dare to demand better working conditions. Instead, they helped strengthen our movement.

2022-10-20 13:57

Workplace anti-bias trainings aren't enough

In September, when a federal judge partially blocked Florida's “Stop Woke Act,” which would have banned workplaces from holding mandatory trainings on race- or sex-based discrimination, it was considered a victory for diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs. But this ignores the fact that DEI training, since it began in the 1960s, has fallen far short of its goals.

2022-10-20 13:50

Will Putin's exit be an off-ramp or trapdoor?

Will Putin's exit be an off-ramp or trapdoor?

Once again, the talking- and typing-heads are filling our news screens with double-doming about building an “off-ramp” Vladimir Putin will be willing to take to get out of the Ukraine war.

2022-10-19 14:00

Race and culture still matter 50 years after Tuskegee syphilis study

Fifty years ago, an Associated Press reporter uncovered the infamous “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.” Tragically, since the physicians deliberately withheld treatment, 28 of the 600 study patients died, 100 died from syphilis complications, 40 of their wives were infected and 19 children were born with congenital syphilis. This disgraceful 40-year stu...

2022-10-19 13:58

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