by Common Dreams | Oct 29, 2023 | Quick Facts
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Jane Shevtsov and Tad Daley Blink and you’ll miss it. In a scene in the new Oppenheimer film set right after the successful 1949 atomic bomb test by the USSR, there is a brief exchange between the film’s two main...
by The Conversation | Oct 28, 2023 | Quick Facts
Republished with permission fro The Conversation, by Paul Morrow, University of Dayton In the three weeks since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been taken over with images and stories of attacks, many of which proved false. For example, within...
by Common Dreams | Oct 26, 2023 | Quick Facts
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson The newly elected Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has previously proposed trillions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and suggested that slashing the...
by The Conversation | Oct 19, 2023 | Quick Facts
Republished with permission from The Conversation, by Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University Political observers, most Americans and even members of Congress can’t remember a battle for the post of speaker of the U.S. House as fraught as the one that began back in...
by The Conversation | Oct 17, 2023 | Quick Facts
by Joshua Holzer, Westminster College During his presidency, Donald Trump said, “We’re putting America first … we’re taking care of ourselves for a change,” and then declared, “I’m a nationalist.” In another speech, he stated that under his watch, the U.S. had...
by The Conversation | Oct 12, 2023 | Quick Facts
Republished with permission from The Conversation, by Javed Ali, University of Michigan Israel is widely recognized as having highly sophisticated intelligence capabilities, both in terms of its ability to collect information about potential threats within its own...