Bran’s Weakness, America’s Opportunity?
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There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, when―pressed by a popular upsurge against nuclear weapons―the nations of the world adopted a succession of nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. Starting with the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, these agreements helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
America’s 47th President, Donald J. Trump, was sworn in at noon on Monday, January 20, 2025. Having previously prophesized to ‘Make America Great Again,’ he remains more committed than ever. His actions suggest that he may have drawn inspiration from the Book of Revelation, which foretells that goodness will finally triumph and prevail. However, his plan to extend tax cuts for the wealthy leads one to believe he hasn’t fully embraced Luke’s Gospel.
Can We Abolish War, Or Will War Abolish Us?
Ratepayers beware. Team Trump’s eagerness to enrich his fossil fuel industry cronies with his “drill baby drill” (and export baby export) agenda is going to raise energy costs for American households.
This strikes me as the stupidest question a human being could ask – and, just possibly, also the last. Our enemy of the moment is loosing hell on us (if warning signals are accurate), so let’s do the same back at them. If we kill more of them than they kill of us, we win! Yes, human life – all life – will likely be destroyed in a nuclear war, but that’s just the way things work. That’s not our concern.
I have lived in Washington DC for years and still can’t get enough of it. On sunny Saturday morning walks, my pace is casual, but the insights are profound. DC is a living lesson about what George Washington described as “the last great experiment for promoting human happiness.” The Inauguration brings new people to Washington DC and I hope they will love and learn from the city as much as I do.
“Is it getting better? Or do you feel the same?” Bono asks in the U2 song One. It can be difficult to make sense of the world. Professor Max Roser, who runs the website Our World In Data and said “The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better…It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other.”
The American people must urgently realize that weaponizing misinformation is not just a threat but a pervasive danger that infiltrates every aspect of their lives. It impacts our social fabric, political decisions, economic stability, health choices, and climate. The status of those who spread misinformation only serves to amplify this threat, no matter how seemingly insignificant. The Oxford Dictionary defines misinformation as disseminating false information, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
“Every nation’s history includes unsettling truths that many would prefer to forget or deny. But true patriotism demands confronting the truths of our history—no matter how embarrassing or dishonorable—and undertaking the difficult work of learning from the lessons of our past in order to move forward. For the United States, that work requires reckoning with our shameful legacy of racial subjugation of Black people in this country—from slavery and Jim Crow to mass incarceration and police violence—as well as our long history of express discrimination against other people of color, women, and LGBTQ persons.