A prominent Ukrainian human rights lawyer is meeting with various individuals and groups this week, sharing the realities of Russia’s war on Ukraine, including its impacts on democracy. Oleksandra Matviichuk is based in Kyiv where she leads the Center for Civil Liberties, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. That same year, she was recognized by Financial Times as one of the top 25 most influential women in the world. In early 2022, she created the “Tribunal for Putin” initiative with other partners to document international crimes under the...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu — who’s studied long-term “growth and stagnation” throughout his career — on Sunday offered “creative” insight into the “consequences” of the 2024 presidential election, writing in the Financial Times that the United States’ “decline” over the next two decades could come “as a surprise to most.” Imagining himself as a historian looking back on the US in 2050, Acemoglu writes: Historians and journalists have been debating what happened ever since. Some focused on the economic policies of Donald Trump’s second term: tariffs on allies that,...

Trump, surprisingly, is almost right on Gaza. And he could win a coveted Nobel peace prize if he made a few changes. Of course those changes are likely to be deal breakers for him and the right wing, but again, he could easily win a Nobel Peace Prize with these changes. I was going to say “simple changes,” but nothing about the Middle East and Change is simple. Now first thing: I am not a scholar on these issues. Second: I know the Middle East is a near impossible situation...

President Donald Trump is calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to "make a deal" to end the "ridiculous" war with Ukraine, which started nearly three years ago. During his 2024 campaign, Trump often spoke about ending major world conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war, invoking former President Ronald Reagan’s "peace through strength" doctrine. Now that he’s in office, Trump is making it clear that it’s time for Putin to come to the table. "I’m not looking to hurt Russia," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. In the...

Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. I accept this award on behalf of a Civil Rights Movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice. I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our...

The Genesis Prize Foundation announced Tuesday that it awarded Argentina President Javier Milei with the prestigious Jewish Nobel Prize. The annual award is worth $1 million and is given to those with exceptional professional and humanitarian accomplishments, and that also show strong support for the State of Israel. Milei recently announced that he will move the Argentinian embassy to Jerusalem, demonstrating steadfast friendship with Israel amid the war with Hamas and Hezbollah.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman believes that economic policies are likely to leave many of the people who voted for him significantly worse off financially than they are right now. In , Krugman wrote that Trump's twin policies of tariffs and mass deportations were going to hit many of his own voters while at the same time making the country as a whole poorer. "A lot of people are going to get brutally scammed," Krugman said. "Those are his most fervent supporters. It is, in fact, probably the local business...