by Dave Patterson | Mar 16, 2022 | Articles, International, Opinion
While civilian homes, apartment buildings, and hospitals were being pounded, ceasefire talks between Ukraine and Russia resumed this week but failed to achieve substantive breakthroughs. Senior negotiators from Kyiv and Moscow, who met via a video teleconference,...
by Keelin Ferris | Mar 15, 2022 | Articles, Business News, Exclusive Member, Opinion
At the start of the pandemic, the federal government and many states stepped in to protect American tenants by banning evictions and offering billions of dollars in rental assistance. Looking back two years later, are we sure this was the best course of action? Many...
by Dave Patterson | Mar 15, 2022 | Articles, Exclusive Member, Good Reads, International, Opinion
There is no hyperbole in asserting Vladimir Putin is currently the most dangerous man on earth. Leader of a country with nuclear weapons, he shows no reluctance to threaten to use them. But what prompted the Kremlin’s leader to embark, without provocation, on...
by James Fite | Mar 15, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
President Joe Biden has suffered falling approval numbers since August 2021, but Ukraine could be his turning point. Unable to quite figure out the old saying “never let a good crisis go to waste,” the commander-in-chief failed to eke out a win with his response to...
by Dave Patterson | Mar 15, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
On March 14, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met in Rome with Yang Jiechi, Beijing’s Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office director. At the top of the agenda was Washington persuading Yang not to help Russia in its unprovoked attack on Ukraine....