A policy which closes our doors to over 200 million legitimate travelers in the hopes of preventing a small number of travelers who intend to harm Americans from using the visa system to enter the United States will not achieve its aim of making our country safer. Dozens of diplomats
In case you’re like us and you stayed up late only to fall asleep somewhere in the third set (d’oh), but now you’re too impatient to re-stream the whole thing, here’s a great round-up of highlight clips that tell the story of a remarkable
Does the Washington Consensus die with the terminated TPP? For a quarter-century, the Washington Consensus provided the paradigm for the international orientation of the United States. Coined by an economist in 1989 to refer to 10 points of neoliberal-ish economic theory agreed upon in practice by the IMF,
My lieutenant said the masks were on back order so use a T-shirt. After Congress ordered the military to save money by having soldiers clean up some Pacific islands used for nuclear testing, the military decided to go all-out and not provide equipment to protect the soldiers from
Boy! Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our company was first to produce a cancer-free cigarette. What we could do to the competition! The tobacco industry knew conclusively its products were deadly in the 1940s (and had an inkling long before then). Naturally, its response was to cover its
A brief history of America’s marches makes the media look a touch pessimistic MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell does a short history of inauguration protests to explain why the Women’s March was so significant. “The American news media was not exactly filled with predictions of the protests’ future
New Yorkers who want more marble in their workouts can now exercise at the Met, not with trainers but “athletic docents.” Make no mistake: this is a workout. Your body will perspire, your heart rate will rise and you’ll shed any light layers. (That said, my one request would
Not everyone accepted Obama’s clemency. One man is waiting for it to be extended to others. A former restaurant owner from Waco, in for crack cocaine crimes, elected to stay in jail as a “silent protest” against the imprisonment of nonviolent offenders. “I would ask President Obama to sign
A brief overview of Trump’s personal oddities After eight years of relatively normalcy from the Executive Branch under President Obama—whose oddest trait might be his anal nighttime nut habit, or the vast and unscrupulous expansion of the surveillance state and drone warfare, take your pick—we are now
John Kerry’s faith in diplomacy led to huge gains for environment and internationalism, but it also led to big failures in Middle East Despite a good deal of skepticism as incoming Secretary of State, John Kerry threw himself into the job to mixed results. His ambitions for peace in
