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…
Xavier Becerra, the secretary of health and human services, at a Senate hearing in June. Xavier Becerra, the secretary of health and human services, hinted on Tuesday that the Biden administration may need to ask Congress for more money to…
Yakov Feygin’s professional title as the associate director of the future of capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute reveals with uncanny precision what his mission consists of. The Berggruen Institute seeks to “better understand how a global capitalism can be…
The White House on Friday defended three Democratic board members at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. who moved to wrest control away from the banking agency’s Republican chairman — a maneuver GOP lawmakers blasted as a “coup.” The partisan battle…