The Center for UN Constitutional Research (CUNCR) based in Brussels is a leading edge think tank

After four years of watching Trump and those around him, this election was not the repudiation we were hoping for. Seeing this certainly dampens the elation I want to feel. It also shows us that our work is just beginning.

Yes, we have spent the last four years resisting Trump, doing damage control while his dumpster fire of an administration hell bent on targeting protections for minorities and the environment (etc.) ran rampant. But the real work starts when Biden steps in and takes the reigns. The energy we spent in survival mode these last four years now needs to be redirected.

After four years of watching Trump and those around him, this election was not the repudiation we were hoping for. Seeing this certainly dampens the elation I want to feel. It also shows us that our work is just beginning.

Yes, we have spent the last four years resisting Trump, doing damage control while his dumpster fire of an administration hell bent on targeting protections for minorities and the environment (etc.) ran rampant. But the real work starts when Biden steps in and takes the reigns. The energy we spent in survival mode these last four years now needs to be redirected.

In this essay, I want to mention the dimensions of the divine (or the ground of being) that we can experience in human life and then go on to reflect on one of them: the Logos.

Attempting to address institutionalized racism in the USA is not going to affect our planetary human failure to create a decent world system supporting a flourishing life for human beings everywhere on Earth. Is the racist dehumanization of persons in the USA our central problem, or is this a symptom of a larger and more fundamental problem? Is the degradation and repression of the poor worldwide separate from the institutionalized racism toward the poor in the US?

Despite the very real danger of spreading the corona virus, there are hundreds of thousands of pe

What would the WWII troops being praised today have to say about the current state of our country and the abuses its citizens are suffering at the hands of those meant to serve and protect them?

Even the criminal thought of a malefactor has more grandeur and nobility than the wonders of the heavens. - W. F. Hegel

The dogma of national sovereignty is an illusion and a curse. For those who understand the world system, the dogma of national sovereignty stands out as the single illusion that is most destructive of humanity's quest for a world of peace, justice, and sustainability.

Restoring our sense of the dignity and meaning of human life will today require uniting humanity within the framework of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

The coronavirus pandemic has made us realize that we are fragile and vulnerable as a species worldwide. The pandemic has made us realize that our global institutions are historical anachronisms that are not designed for human welfare.

America is going through an existential struggle to find out whether we, as a people, believe that the office of the President of the United States should be subject to basic legal and ethical standards.