Where are refugees in the U.S. resettled? Another way of asking this question is what states resettle the most refugees? The Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Department of Health and Human Services keeps track of the number of refugees resettled in which states. It should be no surprise that the states with the […]
Gene Sharp passed away on January 28th of this year at the age of 90. He was not well know among the broader public or the academic world at large necessarily but was well know to those schooled in the traditions of non-violence. He was one of the best and most important theoreticians of non-violence. […]
The 2018 Winter Olympics are starting next week which is great because I love watching the Olympics. The Winter Olympics are especially fun because they have so many weird ass sports like curling* and luge. The Summers Olympics also have their share of ridiculous sports but I mainly watch them for the wrestling since […]
The one year anniversary of the Trump administrations “travel ban” (first iteration) is approaching. The bugled role out of the executive order caused tremendous chaos at airports and border areas. The inherent racism of the order engendered a tremendous backlash against the policy as seen by the massive number of protests at airports and other […]
Gallup released its 2018 Global Leadership Survey yesterday and the results for the U.S. are, um, not good. The story highlights from Gallup tell the story: Median approval of U.S. leadership is 30%, down from 48% in 2016 U.S. approval dropped substantially in 65 countries and areas Germany’s leadership now tops that of U.S., China […]
Two interesting articles were published recently highlighting China’s opportunity to assume more leadership in global politics now that the U.S. is governed by an ignorant man child. The first by Evan Osnos in the New Yorker argues that America’s incoherent foreign policy under Trump has opened the door further for China to assume more global […]
In a previous post I wrote about Bernie Sander’s speech at Westminster College where he outlined his foreign policy vision. This post highlights the foreign policy of another old white socialist – Jeremy Corbyn! On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, Corbyn gave a speech to UN officials in Geneva outlining his vision for a new […]
