Intelligence officials fear Russia’s brazen campaign of sabotage is growing more dangerous
It was almost midnight when a truck driver resting in his cab heard the crackling of flames at a warehouse in east London storing equipment for Ukraine. He grabbed a fire extinguisher and leapt out, but realized the blaze was too big and retreated. When police...
Trump hands Putin global stage and legitimacy while sidelining Ukraine and weakening U.S. alliances
On August 15, military personnel from the United States of America literally rolled out a red carpet for a dictator who invaded a sovereign country and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, including the stealing of children. Apparently coached...
The rejection of slavery’s brutal history reflects Trump’s ties to an ideology rooted in the Confederacy
Donald J. Trump created a firestorm on August 20 when he said that the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, located mostly in Washington DC, focuses too much on “how bad slavery was.” But his objection to recognizing...
Trump’s erasures of national history reflect Orwellian warnings about control of the truth
By Laura Beers, Professor of History, American University When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign. It usually characterizes an action, an individual or a society that is suppressing freedom, particularly the freedom of expression. It can also...
ICE’s spending increase boosts private prison profits with no-bid contracts to scale up detention
Leavenworth, Kаnsаs, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly, in a building so storied that it inspired the term “the big...
Road diets: Trump moves to block road safety measures that slow traffic and save lives
A stylist was just starting her shift at a salon in Kаnsаs City, Missouri, when a car smashed through the storefront window and landed in the waiting area a few feet away. Such crashes were so common along 31st Street that business owners regularly texted one another...
Milwaukee residents already suffering from Health Secretary Kennedy’s cuts to health-tracking programs
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is ” Make America Healthy Again,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that is happening. More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been...
Why some Americans trust fake health claims and help spread misinformation faster than verified facts
By Angshuman K. Kashyap, PhD candidate in Health Communication, University of Maryland In today’s digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or medical information. In addition to actively searching online, they often come across health-related...
DHS glorifies the White Nationalist heritage narrative with posts promoting blood and soil ideology
On July 23, the X account of the Department of Homeland Security posted an image of an 1872 oil painting by John Gast, titled “American Progress.” Gast represented the American East on the right side of the painting with light skies, a rising sun, and the...
War and Criminals: Trump’s meeting with Putin ends in epic failure to end bloodshed in Ukraine as promised
Donald Trump failed to secure an agreement from Vladimir Putin on August 15 to end Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, falling short in his most significant move yet to stop the bloodshed, even after rolling out the red carpet for the dictator who started it. The 2...
How Wars End: A veteran diplomat explains why the Trump-Putin summit was amateurish and doomed
By Donald Heflin, Executive Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice, The Fletcher School, Tufts University A hastily arranged summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was set for August 15, 2025, in Alaska, where the two...
Trump restores controversial statue of Confederate general toppled during racial justice protests
A statue of a Confederate general that was toppled by protesters in Washington in 2020 will be restored and replaced this fall, in line with Donald Trump’s autocratic vision for America’s historical narrative to honor White Nationalists. The National Park...
