“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers,” an old African proverb teaches. Sadly, we now witness its truth in the horrors visited...
Omicron, the new Covid-19 variant, is now on the march. While southern Africa appears to be its epicenter, countries including Britain, Canada,...
Record fires in Oregon and California. Floods in Houston and New York. Deadly winter storms in Texas. Droughts across much of the west.Flash floods...
Memorial Day marks one year since the murder of George Floyd by the hands of the Minneapolis police. This week also marks the 100-year anniversary...
Covid-19 knows no national boundaries. It does not discriminate by race or religion or ideology. The pandemic poses a threat to humanity, not to any...
Last week, the Biden administration finally challenged the US drug industry, announcing that the White House would support an international waiver...
In his first 10 days in office, Joe Biden has launched an intense effort to address the “cascading crises” that America faces. In addition to...
On Monday, we celebrated Dr Martin Luther King’s 91st birthday; on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president, promising change after a...
In this critical election, Americans are breaking all records for early voting and voting by mail. Yet, over 700,000 Americans have the right to...
Poverty in America used to be far worse; about a third of Americans lived in poverty in the 1950s. Poverty was reduced, dramatically, by Lyndon...
The big guns are out for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the charismatic first-term legislator from New York.In an apparent swipe at Ocasio-Cortez, Donald...
Fifty-eight dead and counting; 500 sent to hospitals. The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history took place Sunday in Las Vegas, as a...
In his perverse fixation on overturning all things Barack Obama, President Donald Trump now turns his attention to Cuba, the island located 90 miles...
Brexit – the stunning British vote to leave the European Union – is a clear and dramatic rebuke of the country’s political and...
