The New York Times podcast took a tour of Europe as only this show can do, with astonishing production values and depth of insight. It provided a fresh look at a creeping but dramatic shift in the shape of European politics. In Italy, Hungary, France, Germany, and...
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Bowling Alone: How Washington Has Helped Destroy American Civil Society and Family Life
by Sam Jacobs | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Church attendance in the United States is at an all-time low, according to a Gallup poll released in April 2019. This decline has not been a steady one. Indeed, over the last 20 years, church attendance has fallen by 20 percent. This might not sound like cause for...
What Robert Reich Failed to Say about Marijuana Legalization
by Laurence Vance | Jun 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Professor, economist, author, and political commentator Robert Reich is best known for being President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997. Before that he held positions in the administrations of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was a professor at...
Police State-Conditioned Jury Acquits Cop Who Shot a Therapist for Helping Lost Autistic Man
by Matt Agorist | Jun 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
North Miami, FL – The police shooting of Charles Kinsey on July 18, 2016, outraged the nation, as video footage captured Kinsey lying on his back with hands in the air, begging the cops not to shoot his patient who was holding a toy – but a cop shot him anyway. Now,...

US to Send $250 Million in Military Aid to Ukraine
by Jason Ditz | Jun 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Saying that the new package was intended to enhance democratic civilian control of the military, the Pentagon has unveiled a package of around $250 million in military aid to the Ukraine. They emphasized the US commitment to supporting Ukraine. In contrast to the aid...

Candidate Trump Warned the Fed Had Inflated a Dangerous Bubble. He Was Right
by Marko Marjanović | Jun 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Candidate Trump (2016): Count Donald Trump among the ranks of those who don’t think too much of the stock market as a sound place to put money. A day after making a widely watched public address on his economic plan, the Republican presidential nominee advised against...

Attacking Iran Would Unleash Chaos on the Middle East
by Robert Gaines and Scott Horton | Jun 17, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Undeterred by decades of carnage and the disastrous outcomes of prior conflicts, ideologues within the Trump administration are clamoring for military action against Iran. The exact basis for this escalation varies. Common among the allegations are concerns over...
Daniel Hale: The Latest NSA Whistleblower
by Rocky Ferrenburg | Jun 17, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Daniel Hale is the most recent whistleblower to release documents exposing the injustice carried out by the state. Hale was a National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst. Hale was also a former airman who served as a defense contractor for the National...