18 Oct, 2016
America’s Dangerous Moment
“On the eve of the third and (thank God!) final presidential debate, the main item still in question is not...
11 Oct, 2016
The Final Days Of Donald Trump
“Until a few weeks ago, historians of the US presidency were fixed on Donald Trump’s meteoric and unpredictable rise. Now...
17 Aug, 2016
How Trump Deals
“The revelation from a New York Times investigation that Donald Trump’s chief campaign adviser, Paul Manafort, was on the take...
5 Aug, 2016
Our Deteriorating Environment: Is Anybody Listening?
“While the scientists have been doing their job in calling attention to the multiple ways in which environmental decline threatens...
26 Jul, 2016
Break-In: The Kremlin-Trump Connection
“Richard Nixon had “The Plumbers.” Donald Trump, it seems, has the Russians—either the FSB (Federal Security Service, formerly the KGB),...
15 Jul, 2016
China’s Bad Day in Court
“As had been widely expected, the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea...
8 Jul, 2016
Unintended consequences and the warfare state
““The danger is, as ever with these things, unintended consequences.” So wrote Prime Minister Tony Blair to President George W....
27 Jun, 2016
Is Brexit the end of the world?
“To judge from a New York Times front-page article that appeared two days after the British vote to withdraw from...
24 May, 2016
Cowgirl Diplomacy? Foreign Policy Under Hillary Clinton
“America’s mainstream media, ever attracted to the splashy rather than the serious, has a new topic to occupy the time...
15 May, 2016
Evaluating Obama’s Foreign Policy Record
“So you’re not excited by Donald Trump’s announcement of his first foreign-policy acts as president: building the Mexico Wall, the...
3 May, 2016
North Korea’s New Weapons: Full Speed Ahead
“North Korea is on a military tear. In response to UN sanctions, it carried out its fourth nuclear test in...
27 Apr, 2016
Sanctions and Defiance in North Korea
“Sanctions on North Korea have failed. North Korea has now been sanctioned five times by the United Nations Security Council...
15 Apr, 2016
The Panama Papers and the 1%
“One of the many tools at the disposal of multinational corporations (MNCs) for maximizing profits and undermining state sovereignty is...
5 Apr, 2016
Nuclear Insecurity
“The fourth Nuclear Security Summit, hosted by President Obama, has just ended. The focus was on terrorism, a perfectly reasonable...
27 Mar, 2016
The Republicans: Cowardice in High Places
“Jeb Bush endorses Ted Cruz. So do Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney. Chris Christie endorses—in fact, practically fawns all over—Donald...