In March 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed the vision of a global community of shared future; in September and October that year, he raised the initiatives of joining with others to build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI)....
If I had been just a year or two older, I might have been called to serve in the Vietnam War. I think that’s one reason why I’m so interested in books and movies about the war. I always come back to the same question: If I had fought in the war, would I have showed coura...
Making sense of Baghdad and the scenario of “ousting the Americans” Communication and War: not just Rojava and why we always forget Syria The Syrian revolution has come to an end. It’s true! But the Syrian Cause has just begun Turkish operation producing more sectarian hatred in Syri...
By the time the Vietnam war ended the army was so race conscious that a black female soldier had an open road up the promotion chain, ahead of anyone else. That was common knowledge throughout the army. When I worked in division headquarters, I saw staff officers working 14 hour days....
This isn't the first time student protesters have been arrested at Columbia University. Back in April 1968, students took over five campus buildings, including Hamilton Hall, while protesting multiple causes, including the Vietnam War. After several days, police moved in to remove the ...
Whom those delegates would likely gravitate to also probably depends on the party. Should Biden have to bow out, Harris — as Biden's running mate and, potentially, the sitting president — would be a natural, even likely, destination for many Democratic delegates. Lara Brown, a...
The U.S. presidential election will be held in November 2020. Catalyzed by the impeachment case against President Donald Trump, U.S. political polarization has intensified, and so have the conflicts between Democrats and Republicans. The race is to be continued in 2020. ...
215820 COVID-19, which former President Donald Trump referred to using socially insensitive language, also led to an increase in discrimination against Asian populations.59 What Are the U.S. Fair Lending Laws? Fair lending laws prohibit lenders from discriminating based on specific protected ...
The Gold Standard: A History "We have gold because we cannot trust governments," President Herbert Hoover famously said in 1933 in his statement to Franklin D. Roosevelt. This statement foresaw one of the most draconian events in U.S. financial history: the Emergency Banking Act, which forced...
The original telephone excise tax was repealed in 1902 but reinstated in 1914 after the outbreak of World War I in Europe. Although the U.S. wasn't directly involved in the war at this point, hostilities disrupted trade and led to a decline in U.S. corporate profits. The resulting drop...