The Democratic Party is stuck with Joe Biden. They are forced to support a candidate who lacks charisma, energy, ideas and frankly scruples, as proven by the Burisma debacle. Where Does Obama Stand on Joe? It is no secret that...
The COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the world in a stronger way than other recent crises. Within two months, the entire global economy has been shuttered and most states are only in the early stages of planning a reopening. Most of...
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory...
If you ask John M. Barry, bestseller author of The Great Influenza: the Deadliest Plague in History, why he decided, years ago, to write about the specific topic of the 1918 Spanish flu, he answers: “Things happen. Oddly enough, I...
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to escalate in Europe and the US, American President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have all either brought in or intend to introduce their own separate...
Three months after COVID-19 first appeared in China, US President Donald Trump has determined who to blame for the resulting global health pandemic: the World Health Organization. On Tuesday, he announced that he would cut American funding for the international...
David Quammen predicted everything. In his book the Spillover, published in Italy by Adelphi, the American writer analyzed the possibility that a new virus could turn the world upside down. Quammen called this event “the Next Big One.” After the...
After exiting the Democratic race to be the nominee for President of the United States last week, Bernie Sanders has now officially endorsed former VP Joe Biden to lead the nation. The move was essential to prevent a second Trump...
The Covid-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on how unprepared most states were for a crisis of its magnitude. Most directly, the world collectively faces a critical shortage of essential equipment for fighting this pandemic including face masks and life-saving...
OPEC countries and Russia’s allies recently agreed in principle to cut their oil output by more than a fifth and said that they expected the US and other nations to join in their effort to prop up prices that have...