The Crumbling Foundation of America’s Military
The U.S. failed to produce weapons and ammunition fast enough to supply Ukraine. Could it equip its own armed forces in the event of war?
Graham Lueilwitz · 4 days ago · 4 minutes read

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Proposed US State Legislative Actions on China in 2023: 5 Case Studies
Breaking down notable activities in five states – Texas, Michigan, Hawai‘i, Florida, and Missouri.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 3 minutes read
CPP-Central Committee: Strengthen utmost the Party on its 56th anniversary! Lead the people’s str...
Propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Dec 26, 2024): Strengthen utmost the Party on its 56th anniversary! Lead the people’s struggles against the US-Marcos regime and advance the revolution!CPP Central CommitteeC…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 3 minutes read
Trump Is Poised to Turn the DOJ Into His Personal Law Firm
The question the Senate confirmation process must address is whether the department’s tradition of independence will be supplanted by a new value: loyalty.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 3 minutes read
How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
Nearly half the world’s children “live in countries where risks to their health and safety due to the effects of climate change are extremely high,” according to UNICEF. By 2050, almost all children globally will be “exposed to heat waves,” resulting in the r…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 3 minutes read
10 Essential Books And Podcasts Every Leader Needs In 2025
Explore these 10 books and podcasts offering essential insights for leaders looking to navigate both the opportunities and challenges of 2025.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 3 minutes read
Too Many Elections (Blog)
Low-turnout off-cycle elections are bad for everyone. Civil society can help.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 3 minutes read
A Far-Right Attacker Kills 5 in a Christmas Market. The German Far Right Takes Advantage.
Carol Schaeffer The eastern German city of Magdeburg mourns as the Alternative für Deutschland party sees an opportunity after one of its supporters plowed into a fairy-tale Christmas market. The post A Far-Right Attacker Kills 5 in a Christmas Marke…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
A Newly Declassified Memo Sheds Light On America’s Cold War Mistakes
Perhaps things could have turned out very different if this warning had been heeded at the time.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
Bowman, Reflections on 2024: Monetary Policy, Economic Performance, and Lessons for Banking Regul...
Let me begin by recognizing the devastation caused by the fires in the Los Angeles area. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been impacted and the
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
How Canada's immigration debate soured - and helped seal Trudeau's fate
Immigration has long been a polarising issue in the West but Canada mostly avoided it - until now
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
Why Investing in ‘We’ Over ‘Me’ Could Heal America
I am not at all inclined to spend money freely or easily, a trait I trace directly to my father. On Saturdays when I was […]
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
Fixing Social Security’s 8-Year Cliff Rely On Trust And Stephen Goss
Most experts agree without intervention from Congress and the president, the Social Security system will be unable to meet its full obligations within the next eight y...
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
State’s ocean of tax money is both a blessing and a curse
The windfall will allow for massive investment in national infrastructure, but what happens if the tide turns?
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
The Departments of the French Antilles
After 1946, the process of “decolonization by assimilation” ensured that the French Antilles remained part of France. The departmental framework, seen as the source of all the rights associated with citizenship, had a profound influence on Antillean politics …
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
A Turning Point in Public Health
Our nation is on the cusp of momentous changes to the laws, policies, and procedures that shape governmental and private institutional power to protect the public’s health. The 2024 election, the Covid-19 pandemic, the reversal of longstanding precedents by t…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
EU tech policy in 2025: Enforcement, competitiveness, navigating global challenges
Member states grapple with the complex task of transposing and implementing EU’s digital rulebook. The post EU tech policy in 2025: Enforcement, competitiveness, navigating global challenges appeared first on Euractiv.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
The Downsides of the Wind Energy Boom
Joshua Frank What consequences will these massive renewable energy projects have on biodiversity? The post The Downsides of the Wind Energy Boom appeared first on The Nation.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
2024: the year of distrust in science
Science and politics do not seem to mix
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
Justin Trudeau’s Fecklessness Made Him an Easy Target for MAGA Manifest Destiny
Jeet Heer The United States probably won’t annex Canada. But Trump’s imperial dreams are already destabilizing the world. The post Justin Trudeau’s Fecklessness Made Him an Easy Target for MAGA Manifest Destiny appeared first on The Nation.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
What newcomers think about Canada's immigration challenge
Amid the passionate debates and policy proposals around immigration to Canada, a key voice has been absent: that of immigrants themselves. This set CBC News on a path to ask recent newcomers directly and in depth about their experiences in their adopted count…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
The new EU foreign affairs chief navigating a ‘world on fire’
Former Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas a firm backer of Ukraine but likely less sympathetic to Palestine
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
How Kallas’ plans to shake up foreign policy talks
The EU's new top diplomat is expected to present proposals to her counterparts that could breathe life into the bloc's often stale foreign policy talks. The post How Kallas’ plans to shake up foreign policy talks appeared first on Euractiv.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
How Trump Uses Capitalism’s Myths to Exploit MAGA Rage
America is a nation still at war with her mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems, in which a teeming desire for some kind of break from the economic status quo continued to ring out in the exit polls, there was a blank space. While it seems to have be…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
A Stunning Year for Student Journalism
StudentNation Here are 20 of the best StudentNation articles from 2024 to highlight the extraordinary reporting of the next generation. The post A Stunning Year for Student Journalism appeared first on The Nation.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 1 minute read
The Case for Colonialism by Bruce Gilley | NAS
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 1 minute read
Capitol Commentary
Welcome to Capitol Commentary by me, Graham Lueilwitz.
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 11 days ago · 1 minute read
Outside the Box: We Need to Appreciate and Learn from AI’s (and Our Own) Flaws
Person-to-person communication produces learning. Institution-to-person communication produces two contrasting things: instruction and propaganda. Artificial intelligence is neither a person nor an institution. But it functions like an institution masqueradin…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
Development and evaluation of a digital behavioral economics game towards improved understanding ...
The earliest and often most significant impacts of climate change in the American West is on water resources. For communities reliant on irrigated agriculture, ensuring water security in the face of climate change can be critical to the preservation of local …
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
Unveiling chemical industry secrets: Insights gleaned from scientific literatures that examine in...
Objective Examine peer-reviewed scientific articles that used internal industry documents in the chemical sector to reveal corporate influence. Summarize sources of internal documents used in prior scientific papers to identify ongoing corporate strategies wi…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 4 minutes read
Notable Developments in the Citizenship Sphere: Dec. 2023 – Dec. 2024
Compiled and reviewed by Jed Ngalande, Sophia Craiutu, and Eva Margaret Lacy for the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Good American Citizenship
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
Innovameter: Agent-based modeling of innovation determinants in American and European countries
This article discusses the dynamics of innovation in America and Europe, focusing on variables such as access to technology, education, and life expectancy. To do this, the article proposes an agent-based model called the Innovameter. The dependent variable i…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 2 minutes read
Improving citizen-government interactions with generative artificial intelligence: Novel human-co...
Effective communication of government policies to citizens is crucial for transparency and engagement, yet challenges such as accessibility, complexity, and resource constraints obstruct this process. In the digital transformation and Generative AI era, integ…
Graham Lueilwitz · Created 4 days ago · 4 minutes read