October 2022

It starts with the traffic to the ballpark, made worse by sharing city streets and red lights with Friday afternoon commuters. A drop-off a few blocks away saves time and then it’s a miserable exercise to avoid the puddles on uneven sidewalks.

Before attending college, I always prided myself on being a straight-A student. But my grade after this initial exam made me lose my ever-loving mind! I couldn’t understand how this professor could expect me to ever become a great engineer or design spacecraft if he couldn’t teach me well enough to pass his darn tests.

Here’s a bold proposition to combat our dysfunctional political division: If Joe Biden decides to run for reelection, Moderates and Independents should reregister as Republicans en masse. You think that’s crazy? Hear me out…

The efforts of Turkey’s opposition to change the government through elections are not only interesting and important to the Turks and those interested in Turkish politics. These efforts concern all citizens of the world who are looking for ways out of the deepening “democracy crisis” that is likely to worsen along with the global economic crisis.

From the latest Swing Voter Project focus groups, conducted on October 11 with 13 Trump-to-Biden voters across Pennsylvania, we learned that despite months of campaigning and millions of dollars spent on ads, some are still undecided about whom they will support in these races.

More than a few of us are convinced that the authoritarian threat to democracy is real and serious. It seems to be bearing down on us like an unstoppable locomotive. But the railway system in India can teach us what must be done.

With people transforming landscapes for agriculture, roads, businesses, and homes, introducing species to new places, and changing the global climate, life everywhere is caught in a race just to keep up. The story of the American chestnut is emblematic of this shift, and it’s the subject of a major decision looming in conservation that will have ramifications for decades to come.

Every day, agents, police, and prosecutors across America are fighting to protect our communities, safeguard U.S. national security and financial markets, and stem the flow of dirty money into the United States. Even so, current safeguards against money laundering still allow a tidal wave of illicit cash into the United States. I should know. I led many of these types of investigations for 20 years.

For the better part of the year, a battle has been brewing between the Federal Reserve and Wall Street to convince the elite cadre of professional money managers and stock and bond traders that Jerome Powell is the second coming of Paul Volcker. The conversation has been a titanic struggle, with trillions of dollars and Powell’s legacy on the line.

For a multitude of reasons, the unprecedented protests in Iran no longer qualify as uprisings but foretell of a blooming insurgency for secular democracy. For over forty years, Iranian people have endured a number of now high-profile massacres, yet the free world has by and large viewed these atrocities through the lens of ambivalence.