The Biden administration deserves huge credit for the tough economic sanctions it has been able to impose on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. Some analysts have noted they are the most comprehensive imposed against a major power since the Second World War. But the unprecedented nature of...
America Must Embrace the Goal of Ukrainian Victory
In the two months since Russia attacked Ukraine, the United States has thus far lived up to its reputation for ambivalence toward the burgeoning democracy. It has committed aid to Ukraine in fits and starts and has sought to avoid an escalation with Russia at the expense of more uncompromising...
Russia Needs De-Nazification, Says Pussy Riot Leader After Escape
Russia, not Ukraine, needs de-Nazification, the leader of anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot, who left Russia this week by disguising herself as a food courier, said before her group kicks off a concert tour against the war. There should also be a tribunal against Russian President Vladimir Putin and...
A Total Lunar Eclipse Will Turn the Moon Red Sunday Night
The first total lunar eclipse of 2022 is about to dye the moon red on Sunday night. This weekend’s full “Flower Moon” will be bathed in a rusty bronze light as Earth’s shadow sweeps across it, creating a spectacle visible across most of North America. Just about everyone in...
The Russians Lost Nearly An Entire Battalion Trying To Cross A River In Eastern Ukraine
The better part of a Russian army battalion—50 or so vehicles and up to a thousand troops—in recent days tried to cross a pontoon bridge spanning the Siverskyi Donets River, running west to east between the separatist provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s 17th Tank Brigade...
Fresno City College Names Dean’s Medallion of Excellence Recipients
Fresno City College News Fresno City College has announced the recipients of the Dean’s Medallion of Excellence Award winners for 2022, who are scheduled to receive their medallions at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Old Administration Building east courtyard. The Dean’s Medallion of Excellence Award is presented to an...
Fresno State’s Mai Der Vang Honored as Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Fresno State News Author and Fresno State professor Mai Der Vang was honored Monday as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, for her groundbreaking book of documentary poetry, “Yellow Rain.” The book integrates archival research and declassified government documents to examine the biological warfare that threads through...
Zakaria: The Abortion Battle May Be the Precursor to Even Larger Struggles
As the prospect of Roe v. Wade being overturned looms large and the United States braces for another round of culture wars, Fareed Zakaria has been puzzling about why clashes over values seem to be more intense in this country than elsewhere, and why the competing camps seem more divided than...
Elon Musk Threatened by Head of Russia’s Space Agency Over Ukraine Aid
Elon Musk has been threatened by the head of Russia's space agency over his attempts to provide Ukraine with internet service. Musk has been using his Starlink system - a constellation of more than 2,000 satellites in low Earth orbit - to beam internet connections to dishes around the world....
California’s Demography Is at Odds With the Old California Dream
Wallace Stegner, a novelist, once called California “America…only more so." To judge by population estimates released on May 2nd, the state is still America, but slightly less so. The population fell to 39.2m in the year to January 2022, 400,000 lower than in 2020. The biggest contribution to the...