24 Oct, 2017
Trump’s Benghazi
“Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he didn’t know. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and minority leader Chuck Schumer say they didn’t...
23 Oct, 2017
Democracy at Stake: Battle Lines over DACA and the Dream Act
“After ending President Obama’s DACA Program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) in September, Donald Trump announced earlier this month that...
18 Oct, 2017
The Tragedy of American Foreign Policy
“So here is the state of US foreign policy today: Donald Trump pulls the US out of the Paris climate...
17 Oct, 2017
Men and Sexual Assault in the Age of Trump
“Forget Harvey Weinstein. And Bill Cosby, and Bill O’Reilly, and Roger Ailes. But do remember the women. Remember all the...
15 Oct, 2017
The calm before the storm
“Every time Donald Trump blurts or tweets a shocker — “maybe it’s the calm before the storm,” for instance —...
9 Oct, 2017
Should Limiting North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions Be the Responsibility of the U.S. Government?
“In recent months, advances in the North Korean government’s nuclear weapons program have led to a sharp confrontation between the...
3 Oct, 2017
Catalonia to Cascadia
“Since last November many of us in many places in the US have heightened dreams of secession, of new nation-states,...
2 Oct, 2017
The Rise (and Fall?) of the Machines
“When our children, one girl, one boy, were in their pre-teens, my wife instituted “ladies’ day” as a special occasion...
26 Sep, 2017
Trump and Kim, A Dangerous Pairing
““We’re dealing with somebody that we’ll figure out. He may be smart, he may be strategic—and he may be totally...
20 Sep, 2017
The bully showed up at the wrong playground – Trump’s misguided address at the United Nations
““It was the wrong speech, at the wrong time, to the wrong audience,” Swedish foreign Minister Margot Wallström expressed about...
20 Sep, 2017
Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN
“Donald Trump denounced North Korea and its president Kim Jong-un as “depraved” before the United Nations Sept. 19, saying the...
17 Sep, 2017
World Citizenship Is More Popular Than You Might Think
“Has nationalism captured the hearts and minds of the world’s people? It certainly seems to have emerged as a powerful...
8 Sep, 2017
The Endangered Nuclear Deal with Iran
“Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, said the other day that Iran had violated the spirit of the...
6 Sep, 2017
Begging for war
““There are no good options,” Brian Williams said the other night on MSNBC, launching a discussion about North Korea with...
5 Sep, 2017
Sixth grade recess
“How close are we today to nuclear war between the United States and North Korea? As close as somebody in...