World

After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September of 2017, we saw photos like the one above, of funerals across the island. The disaster death toll post-Maria was the highest in modern U.S. history. What...

Observers on the ground in Bolivia are calling on the United Nations to take urgent action to prevent the country from descending into a full-blown civil war as the military, with a green light...

President Barack Obama is doing his part today, playing Santa Claus and bringing gifts and holiday cheer to children at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. One of the top-ranked children’s hospitals in the country,...

North Korea has announced in another gesture of good will that it will invite international media to watch on May 23-25 as it blows up its nuclear test site in the run-up to the June 12 summit with the United States in Singapore: The official...

Last week, Huffington Post published a clip of an older interview with former President Jimmy Carter on YouTube. The video is once again making the rounds on social media and lighting a political/religious fire.  During the interview, Carter...

*Doing something I rarely do, update, up front, to re-emphasize the meaning of this. As you read below, realize this. What this means, is that Republicans are not fooled. They know that Trump is a Putin Puppet and a danger on the world stage. Yet they are okay with it, because they get tax cuts, […]

The news of a so-called "caravan" of Central American migrants marching north toward the United States is tailor made for a Fox News freakout. Which is why Fox News has been freaking out about...

Congress may not manage to get its act together to pass a bill dealing with its own sexual harassment issues before the end of the term—and in the next Congress, the distance between the...

Opposing Donald Trump in building a stupid, expensive, and racist wall along the U.S./Mexico border: Donald Trump, apparently, who declared earlier Thursday morning that the “border is tight,” which can only mean that we don’t really...

There’s a word for how well the Trump White House handled issues surrounding the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 and their possible connections to a Lion Air crash in October. Unfortunately, using that word would...