Weekly Perspective

A discussion at the Daily Beast ensued on Minnesota , the ICE Crisis , Melania Trump , and Kristi Noem , featuring Michael Wolffe .

 On this Martin Luther King Day , our team pulled together some #RandomThoughts as we look forward to the continued privilege to serve:

 Our team pulled together #RandomThoughts on the Iranian Revolution as it rages on in Iran right now:  

  Iran is one of the world’s oldest civilizations and the birthplace of human rights , first articulated over 2,500 years ago by Cyrus the Great . However, Iran’s enduring importance and resilience have always flowed from something deeper: Iranians and Iranian culture . Across centuries of hardship, upheaval, invasion, and injustice, Iranians have always prevailed, not because of power or politics, but because of our art , poetry , music , philosophy , language , and collective memory . Iranian culture has been the vessel that has carried our values forward when institutions have failed. It has always preserved our identity when freedom was denied and has paved the way to self-determination, keeping meaning and coherence alive in the darkest times. Thank you to the Iranian people for what you have given the world through culture, literature, art , and for your enduring belief in human dignity . May you always shine brightly as the true representatives of our culture.

 We present this midweek analysis on the war in Ukraine , along with the State of Healthcare in America , as Obamacare subsidies have ended:    

The United States struck Venezuela and took Nicolas Maduro into Custody.  Our team released a snapshot earlier in our Perspectives Property and wanted to share it courtesy of Heather Cox Richardson , as shown above. We close out this analysis with the following on John Mearsheimer 's perspective: