All Commentaries
Two Strongmen Embrace as US Watches from Sidelines
Rodrigo Duterte and Xi Jinping are loving their bromance. But the relationship doesn’t have a lot of popular support.
The Case Against WikiLeaks Is a Crisis for the First Amendment
The Trump administration once celebrated WikiLeaks. Now it wants to prosecute Julian Assange simply for publishing things it doesn’t like. That’s a threat to all journalists.
Congress Needs to Support African-led Solutions in Zimbabwe
Progressive legislators can help Zimbabwe embrace African-led solutions to poverty and corruption that put people ahead of corporations.
With Nearly 400,000 Dead in South Sudan, Will the U.S. Change Policy?
It’s a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?
Is Korea’s Cold War About to End?
The media is missing the real story on the peninsula. If that gives Koreans space to lead, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
Welcome to the Ultimate Escape Room
It’s hard not to feel that all of humanity deserves a Darwin award when you see the effects of recent superstorms, the vanishing of polar ice, and the heedless drilling for oil and gas everywhere.
Listen to the Governor of Okinawa
The new governor of Okinawa wants to persuade Washington to stop a controversial base construction project. Will Washington listen?
Unwrapping Armageddon: The Erosion of Nuclear Arms Control
The White House appears to have a broader strategy to unwind over 50 years of agreements to control and limit nuclear weapons.
The ‘Blue Wave’ Was Also a ‘Muslim Wave’
In the most Islamophobic election in history, Muslim candidates scored big wins by embracing progressive policies.
The U.S. Air Force is Preparing for a Great Power War Against Russia and China
The Air Force is undergoing its biggest expansion since the end of the Cold War, and the reasons are clear.