Saturday, June 21, 2025

The E.U. Stance on Tariffs: Pressure from the States

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After the U.S. took the decision to impose reciprocal and car tariffs on the E.U., it did not take long for several of the E.U. states to pr...
Friday, June 20, 2025

The Summer Solstice: Astronomy Is Not Meteorology

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It boggles the mind that the same meteorologists who know that June, July, and August days are counted when calculations are made on the ave...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

The E.U. on Anti-Trust Enforcement: The Case of Google

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On June 19, 2025, when the European Court of Justice, the E.U.’s supreme court, received a nonbinding opinion from the advocate general, Jul...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

American Federalism and Equal Protection: Transsexual Children in Tennessee

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On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Tennessee law blocking transsexual children from being able to undergo puberty-blocker...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

On the Role of Federalism in Foreign Policy on Israel and Iran

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As U.S. President Trump was drawing a line in the proverbial sand by stating repeatedly that Iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons,...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The E.U. as a Bystander on the Global Stage: A Self-Inflicted Wound

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Why has the E.U. been sidelined amid the military tensions in the Middle East? The answer lies with the E.U.’s federal system, rather than t...

Is Healthcare a Human Right?

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Humanity still has not come to a consensus on what are entailed specifically within the rubric of human rights. Even in terms of those speci...
Friday, June 13, 2025

A U.S. Senator Thrown to the Ground: Security on Steroids

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A U.S. Senator being thrown to the ground and handcuffed rather than escorted out of the building because he asked a difficult question for ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

On Kindness to Detractors: Compassion Beyond Universal Benevolence

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In late April, 2025, Richard Slavin, whose Hindu name and title are Radhanath Swami, spoke on the essence of  bhukti  at the conclusion of t...

Israel Kidnapping at Sea: On Absolutist National Sovereignty

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In the dark of night on June 9, 2025, Israeli military forces intercepted The Madleen, a yacht operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (F...
Friday, June 6, 2025

RBI Overheating India’s Economy: On Materialist Greed Fueling Ceaseless Consumerism

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A phenomenon as massive as the global coronavirus pandemic, which ran from 2020 to 2022, is bound to have major economic ripple, or wave, ef...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Musk vs. Trump: American Business and Government at Loggerheads?

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When the wealthiest person in the world and the President of the United States cross swords, people are bound to notice. Such a very public ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Worse than Hell on Earth: Gaza

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Each of us is so close to human nature that our perception of it may be blurry or partial. One of Freud’s contributions is the insight that ...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

The U.S. Government’s Debt: Federalism Unbalanced

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On May 5, 2025, the debt of the U.S. Government stood at $36.21 trillion, $28.9 trillion being held by the public and $7.31 trillion being i...
Monday, June 2, 2025

MIT: A University or a Government?

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On the very same day in which Harvard’s president received a standing ovation during the university’s graduation ceremony in Harvard Yard an...