For more than two generations, except for a brief détente under Obama, the United States has pursued an escalating campaign of economic warfare against Cuba: a near-total trade embargo, financial isolation, extraterritorial sanctions, and other punishing...
A recent article by Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman, Further Back to the Future, deserves to be better known and is a good road toward defining Trumpism. To capture what makes this regime distinctive rather than merely bad in familiar ways, one must move beyond...
Let’s examine the recent United States military strike on Venezuela not only as a spectacle, but as a test case. What happened in Caracas in early January was not simply the removal of Nicolás Maduro. It was a demonstration, to Cuba and the world, of how quickly...
The Buddhist Coalition for Democracy issues this declaration in response to the recent military actions by the United States against the sovereign nation of Venezuela and the capture of its head of state, Nicolás Maduro. These events must be examined through the...
In Trump v. United States (2024), decided 6–3 on July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that a former president enjoys (1) absolute immunity for actions within his “conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority,” (2) presumptive immunity for other “official acts,”...
