Cross-border money flows have boomed this century – unless you want to give it away (Photo: snorski) This season of gifts is a time to reflect on the joy of giving and on the good that we can do for…
The House panel is examining whether there is enough evidence to recommend that the Justice Department pursue cases against Donald J. Trump and others. Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, has raised the question of whether President Donald J. Trump…
Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 2019 (Photo: etan liam) On Sunday, the Hong Kong SAR regime is set to appoint a parliament packed full of communist party loyalists in the city’s first general election since Beijing’s overhaul of the electoral…
In a letter, the scientists also urged President Biden to declare that the United States would never be the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict. Like all new presidents, Mr. Biden is going to announce a new national…
Several inherent risks of nuclear energy, from the disaster potential, to waste management over hundreds of thousands of years, or uranium mining, were not properly addressed in the report commissioned by the European Commission (Photo: IAEA Imagebank) After a year-long…
Ukraine marked three decades of independence this year, but the country’s efforts to undertake genuine reforms only really began following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. In 2017, Ukraine established the Reforms Delivery Office (RDO) to help the government in the…
Prominent backers of stalled voting rights legislation plan a blitz emphasizing the urgent need to counter new state restrictions. Martin Luther King III, with microphone, the son of Martin Luther King Jr., plans to use the January holiday commemorating his…
President Joe Biden will nominate Sandra Thompson, currently the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to a full term at the regulator, the White House announced Tuesday. If confirmed, Thompson would be the country’s top housing regulator, with…
Maggie Astor at The New York Times devotes an article to the egregious lies US politicians share with their constituents, not through social media, but through massive email campaigns. They escape notice in the public debate about fake news because…
Bosnia and Herzegovina is an extremely fascinating, but complex country and difficult to govern. Only reason and dialogue can avert further humanitarian tragedy in the region (Photo: World Bank Photo Collection) The EU’s new High Representative, Christian Schmidt, cut to…