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Mellody Hobson, co-CEO of Ariel Investments, came to sports later in life, running marathons, becoming an avid gym-goer and sports fan, and often waking at odd hours with her husband, filmmaker George ...

Mellody Hobson says her husband, George Lucas, shared his own parenting wisdom with her when they had their daughter. The businesswoman and Lucas share Everest, now 12. The “Star Wars” filmmaker had ...

How inequality and international tension interact is an urgent question for the early 21st century – hence the current preoccupation with global imbalances. For many interpreters of our conjuncture, ...

These are examples of “hyper-imperialism,” a concept theorized by Samir Amin to describe the United States “ as the sole capitalist superpower.” More recently, the Tricontinental: Institute for Social ...

US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been held up as an example of American military power. As Venezuela is not a producer of fentanyl – despite the United ...

President Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and his flirtation with using the military to capture Greenland has sparked an embrace within the MAGA movement of backing the U.S. as a global ...

U.S. intervention in other countries, whether overt or covert, is by no means new, and Daniel Immerwahr notes that the open embrace of expansionism by the President and associates such as Stephen ...

Opportunistic imperialism. Personalist dictatorship. There are myriad phrases to describe what’s emerging in the United States, and they’re not flattering. Amid all this week’s other news, the Trump ...

After the recent abduction of Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, the most important question is how this will affect other countries like the Philippines. For geopolitical observers, the most ...