Think California’s Drought Is Bad? Try Palestine’s.
While Israelis water their lawns and swim in Olympic-sized pools, Palestinians a few kilometers away are literally dying of thirst.
While Israelis water their lawns and swim in Olympic-sized pools, Palestinians a few kilometers away are literally dying of thirst.
U.S. efforts to construct an “armed peace” in the Asia-Pacific are only encouraging a cycle of escalation.
This small South American country is taxing wealthy estates and distributing the proceeds directly to workers.
Even as Obama admits there’s no military solution in Iraq, the Pentagon is pouring more U.S. troops and weapons into its floundering war on the Islamic State.
Hardliners want to use North Korea as a hammer to destroy the nuclear agreement with Iran. They’d better start looking for a more effective instrument.
Every economic class in America plays a different game of chance, each with its own vastly different cost and payout.
Convergence theory predicted that the world would become like Swedish social democracy. Why has the opposite happened?
In the post-Cold War era, the right and even some on the left are playing a new game of “Who’s your favorite dictator?”
Bashar al-Assad is not going to age out of office any time soon.
An innovative new tax could fund climate transition and help rebuild the social safety net. So why is the White House knocking it?
Our wartime commemorations are the functional equivalent of mounting the heads of our victims on pikes. Are we surprised that others celebrate bloodshed when we do the same?
China has its vanishing girls. North Korea has its disappeared prisoners. And America has a generation of missing, jailed, and dead black men.
It’s time to stop relying on human presidents.
Obama’s no peace president, but he’s won important diplomatic victories. Will they survive the 2016 election?
Negotiators in Switzerland just won a huge victory for diplomacy over war. Now we’ve got to protect it.