What happens when government agencies try to sidestep the law and exclude the public on major projects?  Well, sometimes they ...

A Golden Age “In the United States, we’ve announced the golden age of America,” Trump said at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum ...

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It is 200 miles from where I am in Cairo to the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Parked in the arid sands in the northern ...

There’s a criticism which I see with some frequency in the animal-rights movement which argues those who view cultivated meat ...

As Trump and friends claim control over the country, celebrating their war on migrants – “the enemy” of the moment, whom they ...

For folks who have not followed the Elon Musk-DOGE clown show, their main exhibit is the so-called “Wall of Receipts” that is supposed to show all the ...

Congressional Republicans are moving quickly to enact Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” that would cut spending on the social safety net and increase ...

I’m married to a German citizen who’s a life-long resident here in Hamburg, and I spent most of the winter and spring in this ...

Trump—and many others—have skillfully manipulated Americans’ economic precarity by serving up people with pretend motivations ...

WOO-HOO! There’s a new bookstore in Washington Heights – three blocks from where we live! I must qualify my WOO-HOO, however, ...

The DOJ is arguably alone among federal agencies in its degree of opacity and in its lack of accountability: it is the only ...