The President of the United States is a criminal.  I’m not referring to the twenty-odd investigations of him currently underway for violations…

Notice how similar are the Trump administration’s interactions with Iran and North Korea? The pattern in both cases is dangerous, ill-informed, and bound to fail

The trade war is about a lot more than technological competition, soybeans, and even workers’ rights. It is the tip of the iceberg, just one reflection of a world order that, to the Chinese, is rapidly changing in China’s favor

A quick breakdown of the budget proposal

The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report for 2019 indicates that most experts point to environmental problems as being the most serious…

The Trump administration is explicitly using humanitarian aid as another weapon to sanction adversaries

“Once you start removing any sense of government commitment, you quickly move into cruelty.”

It is truly extraordinary that the still-new Trump administration keeps appointing people whose common priority is the destruction of the agency they head.

Saudi money has effectively lobbied in Washington for many years

James Hansen, the indefatigable former NASA official (he retired in 2013) who first brought the threat of climate change to our attention, believes that a carbon tax and a new kind of nuclear technology represent the last chance to thwart devastating climate change.