We live in a complicated world where many democratic institutions are under siege. As a result, truth and justice are underrated and challenged.

In the photo in Moscow in 1989, I am finalizing an agreement between Georgia State University and the Russian Academy of Education that led to years of collaboration resulting in the Global Thinking Project, an environmental science program linking schools worldwide. Hundreds of students, teachers, and researchers participated in exchanges and online cooperation.

I’ve spent most of my career as a “Citizen Diplomat,” traveling extensively through Russia and the world, creating courses, and exchanging democratic views on psychology, education, science, and other subjects needed for peaceful coexistence and to prevent war.

I’ve been blogging since 2005 at jackhassard.org. My blog writing served as the foundation for The Trump Files. The book is a vivid, real-time documentation of the nation’s turbulent Trump years, returning citizens to those troubling days of not-so-very-long-ago to help deal with the future.

In his review of The Trump Files on Barnes and Noble, Paul Hillery said: “As the cover of his new book, The Trump Files portends (shown in the right sidebar), we live in a world that has been turned on its head. Unfortunately, there are no alternate facts! Many books are out now on the Trump years, but this one comes from a practical and extensive wisdom that should not be missed.”