The UN report, “Gaza Genocide” (A/80/492) states that “the prolonged unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territory” by the state of Israe...

Official public statements by a government’s officials obviously trade on rhetoric—manipulation by wording being a part of statecraft—but wh...

Words  matter in politics. The side that can frame a question by definitively naming it in the public mind enjoys a subtle though often dec...

By the time Lincoln was back on the train returning to Washington, he was down with a high fever from Small Pox. I’m thinking the illness...

Is ending the filibuster on appointments to executive-branch offices as well as judicial appointments below the U.S. Supreme Court really...

It is certainly more politic to declare the state of the union to be strong rather than weak. In his State of the Union speech in January ...

The steep drop in the price of oil in July 2015 was a concern for traders. Drillers and other energy companies comprise a significant porti...

L’extreme droit a formé un autre parti fédéral. The anti-E.U. party officially announced on June 16, 2015, is named “Europe of Nations and...

On March 9, 2015, Wisconsin became a “right to work” State. That is to say, labor unions cannot force every worker of a unionized company t...

In his text,  Capital in the Twenty-First Century,  Thomas Piketty claims that economic inequality increases societally when the rate of ret...

President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority reached a deal for a unity government with Hamas on February 6, 2012—which was also th...