Daniel Warner

Bombs fly after a cease-fire is announced in wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Are these announcements real steps towards peace or just a distraction?

Trump's diatribe against communism assumes that the United States won the Cold War both strategically and ideologically. If you even read Karl Marx, the implication is that you are embracing a failed worldview and are therefore not a true American. The implied narrative is that Marxism belongs to history's losers, while American capitalism belongs to history's winners. That is his assumed cause and effect.

Photograph Source: MichaelEmilio – CC BY 4.0 Norway stunned football royalty Brazil in the World Cup.

The Morandi Bridge after the collapse that occurred on August 14, 2018. Photo: Michele Ferraris, Wikimedia. Public Domain.

For FY2026, the United States is expected to spend about US$1 trillion on defense. The estimated US$3–4 billion reduction in funding for Geneva-based humanitarian organisations amounts to roughly 0.3–0.4% of that budget. Yet the United States is not fighting a declared war. It is dismantling humanitarian institutions to save less than half of one percent of what it spends on its military. What do these choices say about American priorities?

Several weeks after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, I finally sat down to watch Trump’s performance. The Dinner is one occasion when the President is expected to be entertaining as well as presidential. What I saw was a very poor imitation of Borscht Belt comic performers like Sid Caesar, Rodney Dangerfield and Henny Youngman. While More

The rail network in the Catskills with summer resorts, ca. 1901 – Public Domain

Photograph Source: NIAID – CC BY 2.0 We all make choices. Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and

Few people would associate Allard Lowenstein with Roy Cohn. Lowenstein tried to influence politics while avoiding the problems of dirty hands. Cohn was the ultimate insider, one who gloried in all the underhanded tricks that soil politics, “the master of situational immorality,” and the man who taught Donald Trump how braggadocio and underhandedness were the secrets to success. And yet they both had something in common: they both attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, my alma mater.

It has been hot in Switzerland. Temperatures have hovered around 35C (95F) during recent peaks. One longs for cooler, even cold weather. And yet, when it