Big-power push for global stability ignores plight of 85 percent of the world’s population
H.G. Wells published “The War That Will End War” in August 1914, the title became a catch phrase for the bloody conflict that was named …
Just as for the 2020 election, post-conviction rhetoric supporting Trump fails the truth test
Former President Donald Trump’s hush money felony conviction resulted not from a rush to judgment but a years-long legal process “winding through two different prosecutors’ …
Hostility to diversity programs is latest effort to foil efforts at forging a less imperfect union
An ancient Chinese curse is said to go like this: “May you live in interesting times.” Whether a pox is afflicting all our houses or …
For some, abortion restrictions are latest example of ‘medical racism’ dating back to slavery
Pro-abortion activists have been making the point that, when the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated its own 50year-old precedent that the U.S. Constitution protects the procedure, …
Trump’s complaint about ‘anti-whiteness’ is just racially inflammatory rhetoric
Axios recently cited polls showing former President Donald Trump gaining support among African Americans. CNN said its own poll and others indicate that “Trump’s share …
Foreign military bases, domestic instability keep Africa mineral-rich but food-poor
Three United Nations agencies recently announced that 55 million people face starvation in West Africa and Central Africa, the number quadrupling in the past five …
Pro-Palestinian protests: Another young generation becomes America’s conscience
On May 4, 1970, around 300 students at Kent State University in Ohio staged a protest against the presence of the National Guard on the …
Florida children to learn that communism is evil, slavery a skills training program
A new Florida law requires public schools to teach students in kindergarten through 12th grade “age-appropriate” and “developmentally appropriate” lessons on communism. The Florida Department …
Misuse of the Bible as a prop not new but reaches new low with Trump
The furor over Donald Trump’s marketing of the “God Bless the USA” Bible was sparked by just that: the pitchman is the former President whose …
Classical education merely perpetuates the myth of racial superiority
Christopher Columbus, famed for centuries as an epoch-making explorer, was actually a lost ship’s captain who wandered the seas in search of a destination he …