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USA and Democracy

The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic in North America. It consists of 50 states and the District of Columbia, with Washington, D.C., as the capital.

Small Farms and Fields

Trump's Secretary of Commerce Ignores Rural Internet Needs

Plan to prioritize satellite connections over fiber optic could strand rural Americans with worse internet access while increasing the share of funding available to low-earth-orbit satellite companies like SpaceX’s Starlink

Security working to protect travelers from airport terrorism.

Trump Ending Protections Against Terrorism

Homeland Security cut around $20 million for more than two dozen programs from another wing of DHS, including efforts aimed at stopping terrorist attacks and school shooters.

George Washington at his desk.

Restraint is Better than Isolationism

Few terms in American foreign policy discourse are as misunderstood or politically charged as “isolationism.” Often used as a political weapon, the term conjures images of a retreating America, indifferent to global challenges. Restraint is a better way.

Students protest

Can the Trump administration legally deport Palestinian rights advocate Mahmoud Khalil?

U.S. law also provides that any non-citizen can be deported if the secretary of state and the attorney general jointly determine that the person is associated with terrorism or poses a threat to the U.S.

forest lake and mountains

Trump's Plans to Destroy Public Lands

Unlike Trump, public land advocates see federal public lands, even those not designated as national parks and monuments as more than just an asset to be sold off.

Gleaming modern Chinese city.

TRUMP will allow China to surpass the USA

the idea that “the East is rising, and the West is declining” had remained a far-fetched idea among China observers until Donald Trump did a 180 on US foreign policy

Photograph of Harriet Tubman

Will Ron Desantis and His Ilk cancel Harriet Tubman?

Who wouldn’t want their children to share her attributes of courage, selflessness, kindness, perseverance, and moral intelligence? Aren’t these the very things we should be teaching our children?

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