Author Archives: amorales

From Russia With Love? Putin’s Realpolitik Threatens Trump’s “MAGA”

CONRAD C. WITTE – On February 14, 2017, the New York Times reported that the Russian military had secretly deployed a new model of cruise missile that violates a 1987 arms control treaty between the United States and Russia.[1] While this is not the first time that the U.S. government has alleged a Russian violation […]

Love Loses in Afghanistan

FRANK FLORIO – On Sunday, February 12, 2017 a young Afghan couple was murdered by an angry mob in Kabul, Afghanistan.[1] The couple had been arrested and held at a police station for illegally eloping.[2] An angry mob stormed the police station the couple was held at, grabbed the couple, took them out and killed […]

President Donald Trump’s Travel Ban: What Went Wrong

STEPHANIE MACLAUGHLIN – On January 27, 2017 President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”. The order imposed a 90-day suspension on entry into the United States for “all travelers, except U.S. citizens, traveling from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yamen.[1] The […]

Bush-Nominated Federal Judge Trumps Trump: A Timeline of the Immigration Ban Rollercoaster

KRISTEN BARROS – For a second weekend in a row, travelers, airlines, and government attorneys experience yet another broad shift in US immigration rules. The roller coaster all started on January 27th when Trump signed a presidential order banning the citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for 90 days, all refugees for […]