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 | 0 comments 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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For Trump, Regime Change Begins at Home

Posted by on Sep 29, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments A month after he won the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump gave a speech in North Carolina where he declared that “we will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.” It’s still commonplace for foreign policy analysts of the left, right, and center to distinguish Trump from his predecessors by pointing out that he...
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Is America Crazy?

Posted by on Sep 1, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments The United States witnessed three mass shootings in one week recently in California, Texas, and Ohio. There have been more than 250 mass shootings so far in 2019, more than one a day. This year in America, more than 33,000 shooting incidents have killed more than 8,700 people. America is the richest country in the world, but it has more than half a million homeless and 28 million people without...
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The GOP’s Sinister New Nationalism

Posted by on Sep 1, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments The worst thing you could be in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s was a “rootless cosmopolitan.” The epithet sometimes came with a death sentence. The Soviet Communist Party, under the strong guiding hand of Joseph Stalin, had long turned its back on the internationalism of its founders and their commitment to world revolution. In its place, Stalin vowed to “build socialism in one...
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To Impeach or Not to Impeach

Posted by on Aug 29, 2019 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments The Democratic Party faces a very difficult decision. Some members want to begin impeach proceedings against President Donald Trump. They believe that the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller provides enough evidence that the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors. And they think that the president has demonstrated in many ways that he is unfit for the office. The Democratic Party...
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