Reports from the border region between Colombia and Panama warn that as many as 20,000 more Haitian migrants are walking northward, drawn by the belief that pregnant women and families with children will get preferential treatment by the U.S. government.Continue Reading
The US government has until Thursday to raise the federal debt ceiling or it risks running out of money in October. Meanwhile, China is trying to stave off the collapse of Evergrande, which would be several times larger than 2008’s Lehman Brothers crash.Continue Reading
A growing number of influential voices are calling for deplatforming anyone who criticizes “the science” behind government responses to COVID-19–including one prominent scientist who suggested using federal hate crimes legislation to silence dissent.Continue Reading
Two new studies announced this week show promising results for COVID treatments using existing drugs, one of which costs as little as $1 a day in some parts of the world.Continue Reading
After 11 days of rockets, Israel and Hamas have signaled willingness to discuss a cease-fire. The question is how long it will last and what the consequences will be for Israel’s relations with its Western allies.
An intense rocket barrage this week has pushed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to its highest level since the 2014 Gaza War. The question is whether this attack was at the bidding of Iran.
An important study by researchers at the Salk Institute published last Friday is a reminder that we don’t know as much about SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and the experimental vaccines as we’ve been told.
Prayer could become illegal under a new law under consideration in the UK that would ban “conversion therapy.”
Democrats in California really don’t get economics.Continue Reading