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India Moving in the Wrong Direction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 »

The Way Things Were, Again?

The Way Things Were, Again?

By Daniel Nardini Well, this extreme winter weather killed my car battery. I had a sneaking suspicion that my car battery was not performing well when it did not work… Read more »

Something Democrats and Republicans Can Agree Upon

Something Democrats and Republicans Can Agree Upon

By Daniel Nardini It makes me sad to see a new and equally bitter cycle of campaign animosity between the two ruling political parties the Democratic Party and the Republican… Read more »