This week has been a wild one in terms of the U.S. and its relation to the World. Most strikingly, of course, were the missile strikes leveled against Syria. Trump authorized these as a chastisement for the use of chemical attacks that were used against the Syrian people earlier in the week. These strikes became…
The last President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, told the Russian Agency of International Information last week that “[he] think[s] the world has reached a dangerous point” concerning the current state of relations between the United States and Russia. This assessment, coming just seven short years after the Obama administration’s “Russian Reset,” an attempted…
Even though the Zika virus was discovered in 1947, it was not until an outbreak in the past year that it rapidly spread. In May 2015, Zika was spread through Brazil by Aedes mosquitoes. Several areas including South America, the Pacific Islands, Central America, the Caribbean and one Singapore area reported to have high…