Surveying the American Public on the Plight of Climate Refugees
The public does not seem inherently hostile to assistance to climate refugees or US involvement to address their plight.
American Global Health Internationalism and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa
America will have great difficulty being the hospital and the gun shop for the global South. Perhaps it is time for it to re-examine its approach and re-order its priorities.
The New Normal: Trauma Informed International Practices During COVID-19
If the current trend of lashing out from a perceived position of victimization and trauma via the United States is upheld throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the globe is truly living in the new norm.
Opinion – How Coronavirus Exposes Unequal Access to Education in America
What do you get when you cross coronavirus and unequal access to WiFi? A perfect example of how the US education system fails to satisfy the right to equal education.
Opinion – Lessons America’s Adversaries Can Learn from the Covid-19 Pandemic
If we fail to examine scenarios of pandemics worse than Covid-19, we will suffer similar results and western democracies may find it hard to recover from such events.
The Afghan Peace Agreement and Its Problems
With a weak government in Kabul and with the United States removing its troops some fear the Taliban will wait until the US troops leave and then overrun Kabul.
Opinion – Nationalism and Trump’s Response to Covid-19
As covid-19 continues to spread in the US, the Trump administrations handling of it as a public health and economic issue will be at the forefront the election.
Review – Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi’s book is a thought-provoking account of America’s racial history and its impact on people of colour, providing a theorization of global anti-blackness.
Democracy in Virulent Times: Symbols and the Future of National Populism
Winning the battle of symbols is of strategic significance and will define the character of our nations, the future of our democracies, and the legacy of populism.
Review – The Age of Illusions
Bacevich argues that the road from American expectations of global supremacy and perpetual prosperity to the economic realities of the US in 2016 led to Trump’s election.
