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America today: desperate but not serious

Voices // 3 years ago

America today: desperate but not serious

Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Not since 1861 has America faced so many simultaneous, daunting challenges and dangers.

India's small farmers worry reforms will threaten livelihoods

Voices // 3 years ago

India's small farmers worry reforms will threaten livelihoods

Feb. 2 (UPI) -- India's farmers have been protesting since the autumn, with a growing intensity that culminated in a violent breaching of barriers in the Red Fort in Delhi during India's Republic Day celebrations on Jan. 26.

China offers lessons for debunking COVID-19 misinformation

Voices // 3 years ago

China offers lessons for debunking COVID-19 misinformation

Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 have accompanied the pandemic from the start. Crucial to managing the pandemic is mitigating the effects of misinformation, which the World Health Organization dubbed an "infodemic."

5 foreign policy experts explain U.S. priorities after Trump

Voices // 3 years ago

5 foreign policy experts explain U.S. priorities after Trump

Jan. 28 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden inherits from Donald Trump a United States that was simultaneously isolated from the rest of the world and openly hostile toward parts of it.

COVID-19 and Trump are battering the Constitution

Voices // 3 years ago

COVID-19 and Trump are battering the Constitution

Thomas Jefferson believed the Constitution should be revised every generation. Perhaps the most critical question today is whether a document crafted by the best minds of the 18th century is fit for the 21st.

Powerful economic forces won't let COVID-19 kill cities

Voices // 3 years ago

Powerful economic forces won't let COVID-19 kill cities

Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Two scholars who study cities explain why they think urban areas will endure the COVID-19 pandemic -- even if they don't get the aid from Congress that now seems more likely.

Iran crumbling under Islamic fundamentalism

Voices // 3 years ago

Iran crumbling under Islamic fundamentalism

Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The theocratic dictatorship ruling Iran has been a disaster for its 80 million mainly young citizens, the majority of whom have known no other government.

U.S. could face simmering, chronic domestic terror problem

Voices // 3 years ago

U.S. could face simmering, chronic domestic terror problem

Jan. 22 (UPI) -- After President Joe Biden took office on Wednesday without any violent incidents, many in the United States and worldwide breathed a sigh of relief. The respite may be brief.

Technology, social media help law enforcement track down Capitol rioters

Voices // 3 years ago

Technology, social media help law enforcement track down Capitol rioters

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Law enforcement agencies are accessing large amounts of information via technological sources to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Full text: President Joe Biden's inaugural address, a call for unity

Voices // 3 years ago

Full text: President Joe Biden's inaugural address, a call for unity

Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th U.S. president on Wednesday, calling for unity as the nation faces severe crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and political divisions. Read the full text of his speech.

To save America, a national reinvestment fund is needed

Voices // 3 years ago

To save America, a national reinvestment fund is needed

As deadly and disruptive as the COVID-19 pandemic is, this disease is a harbinger of even worse crises that could follow if a broader danger is not recognized. That danger is Massive Attacks of Disruption.

Iranian mullahs face European justice

Voices // 3 years ago

Iranian mullahs face European justice

Jan. 19 (UPI) -- On Feb. 4, a court in Antwerp, Belgium, will announce its verdict in the trial of Assadollah Assadi, a senior diplomat from the Iranian Embassy in Vienna, and three co-conspirators on charges of terrorism.

Capitol siege raises questions over White supremacists in police ranks

Voices // 3 years ago

Capitol siege raises questions over White supremacists in police ranks

Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The apparent participation of off-duty officers in the rally that morphed into a siege on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has revived fears about White supremacists within police departments.

Angry men: Capitol riots marked by hatred toward women

Voices // 3 years ago

Angry men: Capitol riots marked by hatred toward women

Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Among the various forms of violence on display during the U.S. Capitol insurrection, one has been largely overlooked: misogyny, or hatred toward women.

Incompetence runs amok in the U.S. government

Voices // 3 years ago

Incompetence runs amok in the U.S. government

Is the U.S. government capable of exercising any degree of competence? Or has incompetence become the new standard?

Fired for storming the Capitol: Most workers aren't protected

Voices // 3 years ago

Fired for storming the Capitol: Most workers aren't protected

Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Can you be fired for joining a violent mob that storms the Capitol? Of course you can. It's not even a close case. Non-unionized workers in the United States -- about 90% of all workers -- are employed at-will.

Full text: Article of impeachment against President Donald Trump

Voices // 3 years ago

Full text: Article of impeachment against President Donald Trump

Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. House has introduced a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection and disrupting the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden. Read the text of the article of impeachment.

Iranian gangsters desperate to blackmail Biden into ending sanctions

Voices // 3 years ago

Iranian gangsters desperate to blackmail Biden into ending sanctions

Jan. 11 (UPI) -- As the clock ticks down to Joe Biden's inauguration as U.S. president, the increasingly unstable theocratic regime in Iran is building up its litany of threats, blackmail and extortion in a bid to end sanctions.

Capitol siege is America's third day of infamy; Trump must go

Voices // 3 years ago

Capitol siege is America's third day of infamy; Trump must go

In the storming of the nation's Capitol as if it were the Bastille in 1789, four people died, unlike the several thousands on the other two disastrous occasions. But the significance might be greater.

Capitol riot is offline effect of QAnon and online conspiracy theories

Voices // 3 years ago

Capitol riot is offline effect of QAnon and online conspiracy theories

Jan. 7 (UPI) -- What is the cost of propaganda, misinformation and conspiracy theories? Democracy and public safety, to name two. The U.S. has received a stark lesson on how online propaganda and misinformation have an offline impact.

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