One economist warned the tariffs would amount to the “largest tax increase… that has ever been imposed” on working-class families. The trade war that U.S. President Donald Trump launched over the weekend by announcing sweeping new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China drew intense criticism from experts and analysts across the ideological spectrum, including those who believe […]
“I really believe the situation is very dangerous,” said one Russian politics expert during a week in which the two countries exchanged strikes. Voices on both sides of the war between Russia and Ukraine have issued ominous statements during a week when the two countries traded escalatory missile strikes. Russia launched a strike on the Ukrainian city […]
One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, Alaska was formally transferred from Russia to the United States after it was purchased from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million on March 30th, 1867. It took several months for commissioners to arrive in the territory of Alaska to formally transfer ownership. And so, on October 18th, 1867, […]
