The Descent of America

Posted by on Jun 7, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Complaints about American decline have been commonplace since at least the Vietnam War era. In the late 1980s, declinism experienced an upsurge with the publication of The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, by Paul Kennedy, which warned of the dangers of imperial overstretch. Even America’s putative victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War represented only a minor lull in the chatter about the...
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Is Obama Running Again in 2020?

Posted by on Jun 7, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments The U.S. presidential election in November will most likely pit current president Donald Trump against former vice president Joe Biden. These two elderly men have already begun to attack each other in speeches, in TV ads, and through their political surrogates. They are challenging each other’s fitness for office, their respective policy positions, and the advisors that surround them. But the...
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Death and the Economy: A Dialogue

Posted by on Jun 6, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments Welcome to Chewing the Fat, our weekly talk show here at WXYZ.  Today, we have a special treat for you — two guests who will answer the question on everyone’s mind. Should we stay at home in virtual quarantine or should we head out the front door and reopen the economy? The coronavirus pandemic is still claiming lives — nearly a thousand a day here in the United States. But other...
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Who’s Responsible for America’s Coronavirus Fiasco?

Posted by on May 31, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments Donald Trump said that he would make America number one again. And now the United States leads the world in coronavirus infections and COVID-19 deaths. It is a dubious achievement. How could this have happened? The United States is supposed to have one of the best medical systems in the world. The Center for Disease Control, based in Atlanta, is world-renowned for its expertise in infectious...
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A Global Green New Deal Could Defeat the Far Right—And Save the Planet

Posted by on Dec 30, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 1 comment The best way to fight the rising far right is to go green. That’s what dozens of academics, researchers, and activists told me over the course of 80 interviews this year. Over the last decade, the radical right has come to power in the United States, Brazil, India, Poland, Hungary, and elsewhere. It has joined forces with autocrats in Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Thailand...
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Impeachment’s Effect on Trump’s Foreign Policy

Posted by on Oct 24, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Korea, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments Donald Trump is now the subject of an impeachment inquiry in the U.S. Congress. He has committed a range of potentially impeachable offenses. But the Democrats have decided to focus the impeachment investigation on one aspect of the president’s foreign policy. Trump tried to persuade a foreign government, Ukraine, to dig up evidence of corruption connected to one of his Democratic challengers,...
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