David Cavendish News Today

The Earth just experienced its warmest January in recorded history. That, on top of the fact that 2023 was the warmest year since measurements began in 1850. It was also the first time that temperatures averaged 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) above the average before the onset of industrialization.

In November 1998, I published my first article in the People’s Weekly World, the print forerunner of the People’s World. Entitled “Time to disavow 175-year-old Monroe Doctrine,” the piece outlined the history of this seminal foreign policy, the centerpiece for two centuries of U.S.

Imagine the following scenario: Donald Trump, the three-time indicted former president, wins the 2024 Republican nomination to regain his old job. As in 2020, however, he loses the election. But instead of fomenting an insurrection as he did on Jan.

The expulsion of two African American representatives from the Tennessee state legislature recently is only the latest in what seems to be a never-ending series of attacks on democracy in the United States.

In recent weeks, the United States announced that it was shipping 31 Abrams battle tanks worth $400 million to Ukraine. That came only several weeks after Washington agreed to supply $1 billion in arms sales to Qatar, a country in the Persian Gulf and the site of the recent World Cup soccer matches.

You remember the headlines: “Biden asks Congress to avert rail strike, warning of dire economic impact,” (Reuters); “Congressional Leaders Say They Will Act to Prevent Rail Strike…” – “Democratic and Republican leaders prepared to intercede as President Biden warned the prospect of...

No, I don’t mean that red wave, the one that the pundits and commentators have been talking about this year. True, the conventional wisdom among the punditocracy was that because of people’s worry over inflation and “crime,” added to President Joe Biden’s low popularity, that the Trump-led...

As we approach the midterm elections, it’s time to “look under the hood” and see what the Republicans are promising the American people if they gain control of both houses of Congress. Warning: What you’ll see isn’t pretty.

  By David Cavendish On Wednesday, August 10, President Joe Biden signed the treaty to admit Sweden and Finland to membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This follows on the action last week of the Senate, which voted 95 to 1 (with one member voting “present” and three not voting) to ratify the treaty. Earlier this summer, the House of Representatives supported a non-binding resolution endorsing the move (since that chamber has no constitutional role on treaties). ...

On Wednesday, Aug. 10, President Joe Biden signed the treaty to admit Sweden and Finland to membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).