December 2025 Magazine

CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation has launched the Help us Keep The Night Silent campaign to draw attention to this reality and to the urgent need for sustained, credible peacemaking. Alongside its symbolic message, the campaign raises funds to support CMI’s mediation work in conflict-affected regions. 

No surprises in that headline because we’ve had trouble leap out at us at the federal level for nearly a year. There are so many examples to choose from, not only in the executive branch, but in Congress and the Supreme Court as well.  Following along in  the 2025 Project playbook shows us that, no matter how chaotic and illegal things might look, there are a few players -- Steven Miller, Scott Bessent and Russell Vought  come to mind – whose ideological discipline makes sure that the administration is sticking to the script.  

Social insurance was originally conceived as a way to cover/protect everyone “from the cradle to the grave”, as the British prime minister Winston Churchill put it back in 1943 (a term that Franklin D. Roosevelt also used). However, in this country the American Medical Association (AMA), among others, fought vigorously against government health insurance, and so it was excluded from the original Social Security Act in 1935. It's time for a major political climate change (and the needed votes in Congress) for a long overdue set of measures to finally achieve national health insurance!