There is a simple problem professors sometimes challenge their intermediate econ students with on the first day of class.

President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from ...

There were portents of disaster. In 1993, the Kinneloa fire burned the slopes of Eaton Canyon and a few dozen homes. We could see the smoke from our house and the leaping flames from Bill and ...

Sugar-cane planting ceremony in Merauke, West Papua, July 2024. Indonesian presidential office handout/ Muchlis Jr. “By way of transmigration … the different ethnic groups will in the long run ...

Trump dreams of his own Kafkaesque penal colony, a place where he can ship the accused without the trouble of a trial, a place where the imprisoned have no chance to defend themselves and, in fact ...

Toshiro Mifune in The Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa dir, Toho Films, 1954. Photo the author. Preface: The big screen When I was young, movies were big. The Continental Theatre on Austin Street in ...

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, the newly published book by Laura Delano, is scaring the hell out of establishment psychiatry and its Big Pharma partners, who in recent ...

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human being, the latest chapter in a story of race-based hierarchy and ...

This oligarchy/plutocracy constitutes 0.1% of the American population. It owns 14% of the nation’s wealth, $22 trillion in stocks, bonds and real estate, while 50% of Americans own 2.4% of the ...

How has Ukraine’s debt changed since the Russian invasion in February 2022? Ukraine’s internal and external public debt has increased by 60% between early 2022 and end of November 2024. It ...

President Trump, in his March 4 State of the Union address, stated: "And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland. We strongly ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The ...