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Scott Horton talked to Ryan McMaken about nuclear proliferation. "McMaken describes two lessons that other countries have learned from the U.S. about nukes: (1) America will use the threat of an emerging nuclear program as an excuse for invasion,...
To paraphrase the Soviet dissident and human rights activist, Natan Sharansky, what it meant to be a loyal Soviet citizen was to say what you’re supposed to say, to read what you’re permitted to read, and to vote the...
Mona Tajali, Agnes Scott College and Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University Three Afghan women who worked at a media company were gunned down in Jalalabad in early March. In January, unidentified gunmen killed two female Supreme Court judges in Kabul. These are...
by Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive, and Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.Series: The Cutting Investigating Industrial Logging in...
Voting rights advocates issued fresh calls Sunday to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and For the People Act as President Joe Biden signed an executive order to promote access to the polls. The calls and order coincided...
Over the weekend the Senate passed the Biden/Democrat stimulus bill, which extends unemployment benefits and will deliver $1400 checks to most Americans in a few weeks. Sunday night market futures were up big on the belief that this...