A Review of Last Week in Trump-ville: TPS, DACA, Immigration, And Excrement Metaphors
On TPS …
On January 8, 2018, the Trump administration ordered the end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El Salvador, putting the lives...
Extremism Has No Place in Political Discourse
The world’s leaders have as of recently begun escalating a war of words with fiery rhetoric - but none of them can claim that...
Trump Invective Disregards Facts
War, namely, the use of actual force hovers in the background, while warfare, which is really all other means in relations between states, remains...
Is America First?
Late last year, President of the United States Donald Trump presented the country’s new National Security Strategy. The unveiling was handled with the kind...
DACA on the Brink
Since the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program affecting nearly 800,000 undocumented young (im)migrants, the backlash of many devastated by...
Tweeting Away Friends and Allies
Schoolyard name calling by an American president might be unusual, it might be undiplomatic, it might even be childish, yet it had the world...
A Year Best Forgotten
What has stood out this year as 2017 draws to a close, is the "globalization of indifference," a term coined by Pope Francis.
An indifference...
Is the U.S. Losing Its Clout?
Delegates to the UN are generally referred to as diplomats. But, in the wake of the vote condemning the U.S. decision on Jerusalem, one...
Republican Tax Reform: A Windfall If Done Right – Updated
Tax reform will be the litmus test for Republicans and President Trump and will be decisive in determining the latter’s re-election. With repealing and...
‘American Dream’ quickly becoming an illusion
The number of Americans living in poverty and the already high income inequality could worsen further in the days to come, making the United...