These Are the Top 10 Risks to the World in 2017
Source: Time BY Ian Bremmer With the election of Donald Trump, the G-zero world is now fully upon us. The triumph of an “America first” foreign policy marks a fundamental break […]
Donald Trump makes top Republican fear environmental future
Source: BBC By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst A leading US Republican says she fears for the future of her seven grandchildren with Donald Trump in the White House. Christine […]
Obama’s Farewell Address To Lay A Path Forward Under Trump
Source: Huffington Post By Marina Fang Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post President Barack Obama will deliver a farewell address next week in his adopted hometown of Chicago, just 10 days […]
Donald Trump Says ‘No Computer Is Safe’
Source: Time (PALM BEACH, Fla.) — President-elect Donald Trump says that “no computer is safe” when it comes to keeping information private, expressing new skepticism about the security of online […]
Russia-Linked Malware Found on Vermont Electric Department Laptop
Source: Time (BURLINGTON, Vt.) — Malware code linked to Russian hackers and found on a Vermont electric utility’s computer is further evidence of “predatory” steps taken by that country against […]
Boy with epilepsy finds ‘normal life’ with cannabis oil
Source: Aljazeera Bruno Delgadillo, a young boy in the US state of Florida, suffered as many as 300 epileptic seizures per day but according to his mother a daily intake […]
‘We the People’: Five Years of Online Petitions
Source: Pew Research Center BY PAUL HITLIN During President Obama’s first full day in office on Jan. 21, 2009, he issued a statement committing his administration to pursue “an unprecedented […]
Video: President Obama’s Optimistic New Year Message
Through diplomacy @POTUS:Shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons program ✓Opened a new chapter with the people of Cuba ✓https://t.co/UldBhTwM1T — The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 31, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
The Year in Race, Identity, and Criminal Justice
Source: The Atlantic By CANDICE NORWOOD In 2016, long simmering tensions over race and identity in America boiled over. Years of conflict between police and minority communities, clashing views concerning abortion […]
Bears Ears and Gold Butte: Obama creates two nature preserves
Source: BBC President Barack Obama has unilaterally designated two new “national monument” nature preserves in the western US states of Nevada and Utah. The Bears Ears National Monument and the […]
American Jews Divided Over Strain in U.S.-Israel Relations
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NAGOURNEY and SHARON OTTERMAN For Rabbi Gerald Sussman of Temple Emanu-El on Staten Island, the Obama administration’s recent confrontation with Israel was a […]
Inauguration speaker Franklin Graham: God allowed Donald Trump to win
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) The Rev. Franklin Graham isn’t sure which Scripture he’ll read at the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. The evangelist and head […]
Future of US relationship with UN in doubt
Source: CNN By Stewart Patrick Stewart Patrick is the senior fellow and director of the program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. The views […]
Russia-US row: Putin rules out tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats
Source: BBC Russian President Vladimir Putin has ruled out a tit-for-tat response after the US expelled 35 Russian diplomats amid a row over hacking. He said Russia would not “stoop” […]
NYPD allows Sikh and Muslim officers to grow beards
Source: Aljazeera In a move aimed at inclusion, the New York Police Department also agrees to allow Sikhs to wear turbans. NYPD Sikh officers will be allowed to wear turbans […]
Reporting while Muslim: how I covered the US presidential election
Source: The Guardian By Sabrina Siddiqui “We should exterminate them.” The words rolled off the voter’s tongue as though he was merely discussing a pest invasion in his home. He was […]
How the U.S. came to abstain on a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements
Source: The Washington Post By Karen DeYoung December 28 at 8:11 PM On Dec. 21, amid his morning workout, an afternoon round of golf and a family dinner with friends, […]
On the front lines of the fight for the Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa
Source: The Washington Post By Liz Sly TAL SAMAN, Syria — “Raqqa we are coming” say the words spray-painted in Kurdish at the entrance to this empty little town, which […]
New York’s Sikh police officers to replace hats with turbans
Source: BBC The New York Police Department said the turbans must be navy blue and have the NYPD insignia attached. Under the new rules, religious members of the force are […]
John Kerry, in a Final, Pointed Plea, Will Outline a Vision of Mideast Peace
Source: The New York Times By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — In a last-chance effort to shape the outlines of a Middle East peace deal, Secretary of State John Kerry […]