Trump’s ICE forces are facing militant and organized opposition everywhere they turn. Screenshot via X By Sonali Kolhatkar A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a raid in lower Manhattan on October 21, 2025. Appearing as though she was on her way from work—the woman wore a navy blue blazer and brown shoes and carried a large handbag—the “polka-dot dress wo

Washington’s unease is rising as Brazil’s Pix bypasses U.S.-dominated payment networks. The country’s digital payment revolution may soon be impossible to contain as other countries adapt their own models. By John P. Ruehl The Trump administration’s July 2025 decision to have the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) investigate Brazil’s “ attacks on American social media companies as well as other unfair trading practices ,” followed by the launch of 50 percent tari

Modi and Trump at the White House, February 15, 2025 -- public domain image By Srujana Bodapati The last couple of months have exposed the humiliating realities of the subordinate alliance that India has been gradually sliding into with the U.S. over the last three decades. The imposition of 50 percent tariffs on Indian exports to the U.S., calls on the European Union to impose 100 percent tariffs on India, the revocation of the U.S. sanctions waiver for the operation of Iran

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Image via X By Carlos Ron On 23 September 2025, US President Donald Trump delivered a dramatic address, explicitly threatening those...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, centrist liberals have lionized the white supremacist, paving the way for a greater assault from...

From hopeful beginnings to a broken system, student loans reveal how policy choices turned higher learning into a lifelong financial...

As part of back-to-school preparations, teachers are patrolling their schools against ICE arrests of students and their families. ICE...

By Biljana Vankovska My analysis of the beginnings of cracks in NATO had been published with a short delay, just enough to become...

The billionaire class has its sights set on an ignorant populace that would be more receptive to its morally bankrupt ideology....

Public domain image By Biljana Vankovska Na recente cúpula da OTAN em Haia (24-25 de junho), os líderes da aliança anunciaram...

Public domain image By Biljana Vankovska At NATO’s recent summit in The Hague (24–25 June), alliance leaders triumphantly announced a...

Corporate ownership remains a relatively small percentage of American housing. But a growing number of financial firms, tech platforms,...

A proposal for a nationwide federally supported school voucher program is just another of President Trump’s schemes to give advantages to...

The impacts of a tightened US blockade, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the return of Trump with a vindictive Marco Rubio as Secretary of...

89 seconds to midnight announcement, January 28, 2025 -- image via video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska In 2022, I was invited to...

A Hungarian Soldier fires his weapon during the US-NATO Swift Response 25 exercise in Norway, May, 2025 -- public domain image By John...

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May 10 in Ukraine -- Number 10, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska The past few days have felt like a decisive chapter...

Local radio stations and digital networks of independents are keeping “human-driven, anti-algorithm expression” alive. WPKN studio in...