Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (at right) and Putin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov (second to right) attend a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025 with Secretary of State Marco Rubio (second to left), Trump Nation Security Advisor Mike Waltz (third to left), and Trump Middle East […]

(Composite / Photos: GettyImages) I know that most people don’t care about foreign policy, but this is kind of important. Yesterday it became clear that America hasn’t abandoned its allies so much as switched sides. The Trump administration is trying to bully Canada, Denmark, and the NATO countries. It just […]

President Donald Trump has thrown the nation’s health systems into chaos. In just the first month of his presidency, the administration has made drastic cuts to medical research and epidemic surveillance, and mounted serious threats to Medicaid, Medicare, and essential childhood vaccination. With last week’s confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy […]

Mayfreed Durán-Arape. (Photo provided by Doris Arape. Background: GettyImages / Shutterstock) SO MUCH OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S mass deportation policy hinges on the word “criminals.” Most Americans agree that real criminals in the country illegally are bad and should be deported. Where the administration has outrun the public is in […]

In the 1960s, leftist filmmakers from France to Japan revolutionized the documentary. Anti-fascism was not just the heritage of past generations but a message carried forward by the avant-garde on-screen. French director Agnès Varda. (Jacques Prayer / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of […]