5 May, 2024
India, Israel, and America’s Double Standard
India, Israel, and America’s Double Standard by Mel Gurtov 866 words India is hailed as the world’s biggest democracy, and...
23 Jul, 2022
Back to the Future: Biden in the Middle East
President Biden has now completed his first visit to the Middle East. The trip was billed as an opportunity to reset relations, especially with Saudi Arabia, promote respect for human rights, and reaffirm traditional US policy on Israel and the Palestine question.
12 Dec, 2021
Putin’s Democracy Problem: Civil Society and Ukraine
Vladimir Putin is trying to accomplish two very dangerous tasks at once: the destruction of civil society in Russia, and the withering away of international support for a democratic Ukraine...
13 Sep, 2021
Modern Liberalism Born
alues that later grew into liberalism began stirring in the epoch now known as The Enlightenment, starting more than three centuries ago, chiefly in England and France...
12 Jul, 2021
Conflict or Cooperation in U.S.-China Relations?
The United States and China, the world’s mightiest military and economic powers, are currently heading toward a Cold War or even a hot one, with disastrous consequences.
23 Feb, 2021
Biden’s Opportunity with China
The dominant view of China in both Washington and in American public opinion is that the United States...
25 Jun, 2020
Conservatives lose – and lose – and lose
“This month’s Supreme Court decree that gays cannot be fired from jobs simply because they’re gay is a solid blow...
26 Jul, 2019
Asylum as a human right
“In the past year the Trump administration has been applying increasingly restrictive policies to block asylum seekers…” Author: Andrew Moss...
7 Mar, 2019
Will ethnocide in western china become genocide?
“At this moment, China has as many as one million Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities held in concentration camps...
16 Jul, 2018
Human Rights Trumped
“Who cares about human rights? Not Trump, not his team. Here’s some of what we see…” Mel Gurtov Published in:...
7 Jul, 2018
At Home and Abroad, Trump Abandons Human Rights
“In January 1941, with the prospect looming of US involvement in another European war, President Franklin Roosevelt spoke of America’s...
23 Oct, 2017
Democracy at Stake: Battle Lines over DACA and the Dream Act
“After ending President Obama’s DACA Program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) in September, Donald Trump announced earlier this month that...
4 Oct, 2017
The violence comes home again
“In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, as in the wake of all the high-profile mass shootings that preceded...
11 Jul, 2017
Promoting the General Welfare
“July 4 reminds me of our nation’s founding ideal that all of us are created equal. How does this “self-evident”...
31 Jan, 2017
Men’s Letter to the President: Support Gender Equality
“We marched in all 50 states. Several of the largest demonstrations were in the hundreds of thousands. In total, millions...