An innovative new tax could fund climate transition and help rebuild the social safety net. So why is the White House knocking it?
An Open Letter to Obama: If You Want Money for the Climate, Tax Wall Street
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Democracy & Governance
Solidarity’s Offices: Where Time Has Stopped
Membership in Poland’s Solidarity trade union is shrinking and the aging leadership blocks the way of new blood.
DC’s Dictator Summit
A Washington gathering of Persian Gulf autocrats sums up the absurdity of America’s relationship with some of the world’s most oppressive regimes.
Time for Democracy in Singapore?
With Singapore’s longtime strongman now passed away, some expect the statelet’s authoritarian political culture to follow him into the grave.
Rand Paul’s Foreign-Policy Flip-Flop Not Likely to Win Him Many Friends
What does the Republican Party want with Rand Paul if his extremist constituents feel too betrayed to follow him to its center?
Could the Yugoslav Wars Have Been Avoided?
In 1990, the large national debt, stagnation, and Serbian nationalism threatened to tear apart the Yugoslav state.
America’s Hydra Problem in the Middle East
ISIS may be more famous for cutting off heads, but it’s Washington that’s learning the hard way not to slash first and ask questions later.
Taiwan’s Sunflower Revolution: One Year Later
As youth movements rise to the fore, Taiwan is undergoing a change of identity.
The 1.5 Million Man March
China has its vanishing girls. North Korea has its disappeared prisoners. And America has a generation of missing, jailed, and dead black men.
Letter to Loretto
Torture whistleblower John Kiriakou bids farewell to incarceration and moves on with his life.