America continues be in a state of civil war. Not just a civil war, but the Civil War. In the first round, back in the 1860s, the Confederacy lost. Yet now...
Back in 1965, Vaery Giscard d’Estaing, then France’s finance minister, famously called the benefits the United States reaped from the dollar’s role as the...
Modern humans, born into one climate era, called the Holocene, have crossed the border into another, the Anthropocene. But instead of a Moses guiding humanity...
The climate crisis we now face is a reflection of a broader crisis: a global confusion of means and ends. We continue to use fossil fuels because we can...
Donald Trump’s renunciation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran and the reimposition of U.S. sanctions on that country threaten global peace....
There are two types of foreign policy: one based on the principle “might makes right,” and one based on the international rule of law. The United States wants...
Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, recently noted that the public scrutiny of Facebook is “very much overdue,” declaring that “it’s shocking to me that...
The boldest plan to achieve the targets set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement comes from China. The Paris accord commits the world’s governments to keeping...
More than ever, the European Union needs unity to assert its values and interests in an age when U.S. global leadership is on the verge of collapse, China is...
Much of the carnage that has ravaged Syria during the past seven years is due to the actions of the United States and its allies in the Middle East. Now,...
The Global Partnership for Education, a worthy and capable initiative to promote education in 65 low-income countries, is having what the jargon of...
This Christmas, America’s gift to the world was a $285 million cut in the United Nations’ regular budget. Technically, the U.N. regular budget reflects a...
Friends of Germany and Europe around the world have been breathing a sigh of relief at the newfound willingness of Germany’s Christian Democrats and Social...
The U.S. plutocracy has declared war on sustainable development. Billionaires such as Charles and David Koch (oil and gas), Robert Mercer (finance), and...
The Las Vegas massacre and its aftermath are pure Americana. A deranged person lugs nearly two dozen high-tech assault weapons to a 32nd-floor hotel room to...
Fifteen years after George W. Bush declared that Iraq, Iran and North Korea formed “an axis of evil,” Donald Trump, in his maiden address to the United...
The U.S. is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil;...
O Freunde, nicht diese Toene! (Oh friends, not these sounds!), proclaimed the baritone in the stirring performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to the G-20...
Nearly 100 days after U.S. President Donald Trump took office, he and his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, continue to commit an economic fallacy that...
Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are...
Never in recent history has a change of leadership attracted as much attention and speculation as Donald Trump’s rise to the U.S. presidency. What this change...
The key political divide in the United States is not between parties or states; it is between generations. The millennial generation (those aged 18-35) voted...
The AIDS pandemic claimed around 36 million lives between 1981 and 2016, and a similar number around the world currently live with the HIV virus. Some 1.2...
The big disappointment in the world economy today is the low rate of investment. In the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, growth in high-income...
Terrorist attacks on civilians, whether the downing over Sinai of a Russian aircraft killing 224 passengers, the horrific Paris massacre claiming 130 innocent...