Tag: Donald Trump
China’s leverage over ‘Rocket Man’ is key to avoiding nuclear war...
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un are playing a dangerous game of brinkmanship while also...
Why Trump’s tirades are losing their potency
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
President Trump on September 19 gave his inaugural speech to the United Nations General Assembly, where he characterized North...
Disarming North Korea means making concessions
Jeffrey Fields, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Dealing with North Korea’s ambitions for nuclear weapons has vexed the...
Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants 90 years ago: Why the global...
Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
Ninety years ago, on Aug. 23, 1927, two Italian immigrants were executed.
The deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the...
Arpaio pardon could encourage more civil rights violations
Steven Mulroy, University of Memphis
President Donald Trump may pardon Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who illegally used racial profiling to enforce immigration laws.
It’s...
Charlottesville and the politics of fear
David Alpher, George Mason University
I have spent nearly 16 years studying how the risk of violence grows in societies around the world and running...
Rise in globalism doesn’t mean the end for nationalists
A. Burcu Bayram, University of Arkansas
Are you more of a nationalist or a cosmopolitan? Or both?
Recent events suggest that a nationalist backlash to globalization...
Why governmental transparency will not work without strong leadership
Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Rutgers University Newark
Walter Shaub, the former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, has warned that President Donald Trump’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...
Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee
Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....
