Fresh off an Asia trip where he showed surprising deference to dictators, Trump looks ready to start a renewed assault on critics at home.
Corporate Self-Regulation Is a Global Crisis
When companies do business in a regulatory vacuum, they make their own rules. And from the U.S. to Zambia, many governments are only too happy to let them.
Britain Faces a Brave New World After Brexit
The UK’s Conservative government is weak, the Labor Party is rising, and EU members are out for blood.
How the ‘Millennium Migration’ from Latin America Shaped the U.S. for the Better
The only immigration “crisis” is the cascading assault on civil liberties — and human rights — by racists and immigration restrictionists.
Trump’s Enablers Should Be Shamed Out of Public Life
The evidence is in: The “adults in the room” at the White House have enabled Trump’s worst impulses, not checked them.
What Ireland Can Teach Europe
Ireland is a small player, but it has much to teach its neighbors now suffering extremism, division, and debt.
The Scale of Pentagon Waste Boggles the Mind, But Congress Keeps Giving Them More
If any other public agency had blown hundreds of billions of dollars, Congress would hold hearings. If it’s the Pentagon, it gets $80 billion more.
Europe and the Middle East Are Both on the Verge of Unraveling
From Catalonia to Kurdistan, long simmering regions are clamoring for their own states. But what good is being a state anymore?
What Happened to the Arms Trade Treaty?
Four years ago, the U.S. and the UK signed a landmark treaty to restrict the sale of arms to rights abusers. So why are they still profiting off the atrocities in Yemen?
Hurricane Donald Hits the Republican Party
If Trump succeeds in ramping up military spending and gutting everything else, we’ll be left with a bunch of nukes and an underfunded state — and no one but China to keep us afloat.