Social issues

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” Senior Adviser to President Joe Biden Mitch Landrieu responded to a question on why people give President Joe Biden poor marks on the economy by stating that over the past couple of years, “it’s been very difficult for the people in the

At the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, more than 70 countries from every region of the world expressed support for “efforts to strengthen the right to education, including the explicit right to full free secondary and at least one year of free pre-primary education.” Luxembourg and

Over 150 Bilderbergers (of the 1,861 who are still alive) have played important parts in the Covid-19 event.

The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security Washington, DC 20528 June 20, 2023 Re: More than 100 Organizations Urge a Centralized Process for a Chance to Come Home Dear Secretary Mayorkas, We the undersigned organizations respectfully request that you facilitate the returns of unjustly deported people with pending requests

(Beirut) – Lebanon has made no tangible progress in halting torture by security officials five years after passing an anti-torture law, nine organizations including Human Rights Watch said today on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The following is their statement: Lebanon: 5 Years On, No Tangible Progress

Today marks 20 years since the first “United Nations Public Service Day,” which annually commemorates the contribution of the public sector and public services to the global development process.

(Beirut) – In the aftermath of the massive earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, 2023, calls to lift sanctions on Syria went viral on social media, sometimes backed by oversimplified claims that sanctions were preventing emergency humanitarian aid from reaching Syria. Various Syrian government entities and

The Taliban’s “acting” central bank governor, Mullah Hidayatullah Badri, met with Chinese Ambassador Wang Yu on Thursday in Kabul to discuss “the economy, banking relations, business, and some related topics.” Badri became the finance minister of Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul in August 2021, but he switched jobs

“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”Justice Neil Gorsuch We have become a nation in a permanent state of emergency. Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order

STORY AT-A-GLANCE In this video, I interview Mike Benz, executive director for the Foundation for Freedom Online.