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The Congressional Republicans and Peter Navarro
By Daniel Nardini A good friend of mine got very disappointing news; the Affordable Connectivity Program will come to an end in May. This program has helped tens of millions… Read more
India Moving in the Wrong Direction
By Daniel Nardini For the first time ever, Freedom House, a well-known organization that ranks the amount and quality of freedom in every country around the world, moved India down… Read more
Too Many Constitutional Issues With Trump
By Daniel Nardini The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that former U.S. President Donald Trump can be on all of the ballots in all 50 states for the 2024 presidential election…. Read more
Immigration to the United States in the 2020’s
By Daniel Nardini Immigration in this decade is in many ways a continuation of trends in the previous decades, and in other ways a result of conditions in the countries… Read more
Freedom of Religion in Illinois and the Extreme Right
By Daniel Nardini In my personal experience throughout life, while all U.S. states have freedom of religion, some are more free than others. In my view, Illinois is among the… Read more
The Real Sad Facts About the Migrant Issue
By Daniel Nardini When I hear some of the ugliest political rhetoric coming out of the Republican Party about what they think the migrants are, it makes me cringe to… Read more
The Still Very Porous U.S.-Mexico Border
By Daniel Nardini I saw the 60 Minute special on a place in the U.S. border wall where Chinese nationals were easily getting through a break in the border wall… Read more
The Chinese Student Spies Among Us
By Daniel Nardini A Chinese student named Wu Xioalei was convicted of threatening to do harm to a fellow Chinese student for posting criticism of the Chinese government. Wu could… Read more
The Wrecked Human Souls of War
By Daniel Nardini I see them from time to time in all of the places I go shopping in. They wear hats describing them as veterans of a certain war,… Read more
A Three-tiered Justice System
By Daniel Nardini The whole legal drama with former President Donald Trump is a stark reality reminder that there actually is a two-tiered justice system in the United States. One… Read more »