It should be obvious to pretty much everyone at this point that anything crypto is an old-fashioned grift, a scam, a Ponzi scheme. Those who got in...
A recent military parade in Pyongyang showcased the country’s intercontinental ballistic missile. Kim Jong Un used the opportunity of the...
The domestic-international gap in perceptions is not quite as large on climate change as it was on the pandemic back in 2020. For instance, 39...
The commentary about Squid Game has emphasized the economic precariousness in which so many Koreans live. Household debt in South Korea is over 100...
One of the virtues of globalization, from the perspective of a corporation, is the ability to move operations from one jurisdiction to another to...
The time for modest reforms is long past. A radical cut in carbon emissions can’t be accomplished simply by banning drinking straws, ramping up...
In Asia, the primary impact of climate change is on the monsoon cycle. Essentially, areas that traditionally get a lot of rain will get even more...
You’d think that the whole world could unite against a deadly virus. Covid-19 has already sickened over 200 million people around the world and...
The presidential election wasn’t close. Joe Biden won the popular vote by more than 7 million votes, which translates to a margin of 4.5 percent....
If the current pandemic is a test of the global emergency response system, the international community is flunking big time.It has done just about...
If the United States had quick-thinking and efficient leadership, the pandemic would have infected about 100,000 people and killed only a couple...
Complaints about American decline have been commonplace since at least the Vietnam War era. In the late 1980s, declinism experienced an upsurge with...
In his infinite ignorance, Donald Trump has invited world leaders to the White House for a face-to-face meeting at the end of June. Unlike the other...
The far right thrives on fear. It’s no surprise, then, that it would use the latest pandemic, which has generated widespread panic, to bolster its...
At a dinner party in mid-February, an architect told me that he was having a problem finishing his building projects. It was the carpets.It might...
A succession of social upheavals over the last decade has radically realigned political power throughout the world.As a result of these tectonic...
The far right is on a roll. Just a few years ago, liberals and conservatives would have considered its recent political victories a nightmare...
Led by young people, climate strikers blocked traffic on two mornings at the end of last month in Washington, DC. On the first day, protestors...
A group of Italians started the Slow Food movement back in the 1980s. Stay away from fast-food restaurants, they urged: eat local, focus on...
All eyes are focused these days on Boris Johnson, the new prime minister of the United Kingdom. But that’s not the most important news this month...
The Republican Party has long favored shrinking the federal government to the point at which it can be “drowned in the bathtub”, to use Grover...
Currently, the US government owes $21 trillion, which is slightly more than the household and corporate debt combined. The owners of US debt include...
The world is experiencing the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. The Trump administration’s response has been to reduce the annual number...
John Feffer Iranian society is sharply divided. The current unrest reflects the thwarted economic ambitions of a falling working class, not the...
Bombardiers have a tradition of writing slogans on the bombs they drop on their enemies. Donald Trump might as well have scrawled ‘I’m...
In March, Donald Trump assembled a group of coal miners to serve as the backdrop to his signing of new executive orders on the environment. These...
Dystopias have recently achieved full-spectrum dominance. Kids are drawn to such stories – The Giver, Hunger Games – like...
Last week, when Londoners went to the polls to elect their mayor, the Conservative Party’s Zac Goldsmith suffered a humiliating landslide...
