Conservative blogger Gordon Howie is struggling to find signs of hope from the Republican President with whom he is stuck. He cheers tentatively for the “gigantic“, “herculean”…
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Catholics, students of the Italian language, and moral thinkers everywhere should find this TED talk of interest: Pope Francis didn’t put on the headset and stride…
In ongoing signs that the Trump Administration does know how to talk about, let alone solve, pressing global problems, Donald Trump babbles about North Korea…
Если бы я был Владимиром Путиным… If I were Vladimir Putin, what would I like to get for Christmas? An attractive Russian woman beguiling a bunch of…
The President of the United States took sides in the Super Bowl, but he seems remarkably ambivalent about picking sides between the country he quarterbacks…
Folks at JFK Airport, in the Twitterverse, and around the world are protesting President Trump’s order banning over 134 million human beings, including 500,000 legal residents,…
A Bloomberg report leads me to the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm that advises investors how politics will affect business, and its report on the Top Risks of 2017. The…
Нужно уметь проигрывать достойно—Nuzhno umet’ proigryvat’ dostojno—“One must know how to lose with dignity,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin of the U.S. Democratic Party. Fielding questions for…
Our World in Data offers a useful series of charts on global trends in financing healthcare. Among theit data, authors Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser offer…
Charlie Rose talked to Bono about the American Presidential election this morning. I’m probably a socialist rat bastard for quoting some artsy-fartsy Irish dancy boy about American politics……