Trump’s Family Separation Policy is a Crime Against Humanity
Most Americans are familiar with the past Administration’s Family Separation Policy. What gets lost in the flurry of Trump Administration misbehavior is the fact that child separation may be in a special category of its own. Not only is it likely
Is Our System of Voting Racist?
At its most basic level, the fairest system of voting most accurately reflects the principle of one person one vote. According to that standard, does the American system measure up and when it discriminates, does it discriminate fairly? For example,
Trump and Mail-in Voting: A Vendetta on the Truth
The U.S. presidential elections are looming and the Coronavirus pandemic has made in-person voting problematic. As a result, many states (both majority democrat and majority republican) have opted to increase their scope of mail-in voting. The mail-in voting system allows
Kenosha Protests: What You Need To Know About the Shooting of Jacob Blake
On Aug. 23, a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot and seriously injured Jacob Blake Jr., 29, as he entered his car. The days following saw protests, rallies, and looting in Kenosha, with some protests turning violent. On Sept. 1,
Who is Joe Biden: From Defeat to Nomination
On Sunday 15 March, in a TV studio without an audience, the two Democratic candidates for president Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders faced off. In deference to the looming COVID-19 crisis, they stood far away from each other and instead
The Phone Call That Could End Trump’s Presidency
The conversation that took place on July, 25, 2019, between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, has resulted in a push by the House Democrats to impeach Trump. This is how a thirty-minute phone call could lead to a pivotal moment
Trump and Putin in Helsinki: A Non-Summit
(Updated 25 July 2018) The most charitable thing that can be said of the Trump-Putin Summit Meeting in Helsinki on 16 July, is that it was the celebration of a non-summit, just like Alice in Wonderland’s non-birthdays. Watch the highlights of
More than Hurt Feelings: The Real Danger of Hate Speech
EDITOR’S NOTES: THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY Naomi Elster. Naomi has a PhD in Breast Cancer, and is an author of fiction, non-fiction and scripts. Her work has been widely published, including; The Establishment, The Guardian and Crannog Magazine. Now that Trump
POTUS is Compromised: Web of Intelligence Links Trump and Associates to Kremlin
Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark
Trump Tyranny and the Politics of Resistance
In the Trump administration, are we witnessing the undermining of democracy and the rise of tyranny? Can the institutions of American Democracy provide effective resistance? Last fall, in another world altogether, I wrote an Impakter article on “The Great Turning” where
One for All – President Donald Trump?
When I was an international graduate student, a first timer in the US, I got my first taste of the smooth functionality of the American Democratic apparatus in 2012. I was in New York, the world’s melting pot and home
WHY 2017 COULD BE BETTER THAN YOU THINK
At the end of the year, the prediction game becomes a top sporting event in the publishing industry, with everyone throwing their predictions on the wall to see if they stick. I’ll throw mine too but I’ll do it in