The U.S. has a history of high rates of killings by firearms. But Congress has passed only three laws controlling guns. The prospects for more are dim. Illegal firearms confiscated by police, Chicago, July 7, 2014 (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) This is the first in a...
The United States has a gun problem. Students at Indiana University are going to tell us about it in a series of stories. Source: The JAMA Network Read our series on “Guns in America” here. The United States has a gun problem. And students at Indiana...
By Tania Bagan The Mediterranean Sea is the most traveled, deadliest migration route on Earth. Last year, 5,079 migrants lost their lives trying to cross the world’s third-largest sea — 34 percent more than in 2015, according to the Missing Migrants Project....
By Alistair Lyon U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has casually hurled a diplomatic grenade into the Middle East. He has picked as his ambassador to Israel a fervent sponsor of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land and an enemy of any two-state solution to...
By Sue Landau Just when the world had taken a huge step forward in the life-or-death fight against global warming, a man who has denied climate change was elected U.S. president. Donald Trump’s victory cast a pall over the recent United Nations Climate...
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump suggested steps that could plunge the Middle East further into chaos. Once President, will he change tack? A staff member removes the Iranian flag after a meeting of foreign ministers and representatives of the U.S., Iran, China,...
By Tania Bagan I study at a small university in Pennsylvania, where diversity of political ideology is extremely limited and where, leading up to the U.S. presidential election, professors felt free to deride and vilify Donald Trump in the classroom. While I have...
I was a reluctant volunteer for Hillary Clinton. I was propelled by fear of how I’d feel if the unthinkable happened. Now I’m angry I did not do more. The author (seated in front, in black) with Clinton campaign volunteers in Pennsylvania The days since November...
Donald Trump’s win in the U.S. presidential election threw markets briefly for a loop. But now stocks are flirting with record highs. But for how long? A TV screen showing U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in front of the German share price index, Frankfurt,...
Pulling your hair out over Donald Trump? Don’t panic yet. Soon the President-elect will start feeling cross-currents. It’s the rule of checks and balances. Protesters demonstrate against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, New York, 12 November 2016...