On April 4, after being indicted on 34 felony counts in a courtroom in New York, Donald Trump headed back to Mar-a-Lago, Florida. “I never thought this could happen in America,” he said in a rally after becoming the first former president in U.S. history charged for a...
Two major interstate highways, interstates 35 and 80, cross through Iowa, making travel in and out of the state quick and efficient. The same interstates are the main reasons, according to the local law enforcement authorities, why Iowa has become one of the...
Tom Hanson introduces himself as a “recovering diplomat.” He worked for the State Department for 25 years, as an officer of the Foreign Service in the Soviet Union, East Germany and other European countries in the last years of the Cold War and its aftermath. After he...
Melbourne, Australia received the unenviable title of being the most “locked down” city in the world after enduring more than 260 days of tough COVID-19 restrictions. The Victorian state government’s strict “stay at home” orders including a 9pm curfew and 5km travel...
Last June marked a turn in the abortion rights debate in the United States, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision from 1973 that protected a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. In response to the court decision, in January,...