Spending Unlimited
The Pentagon’s budget follies come at a high price.
Unjust Wars and a Just Peace
Wars can have many and diverse causes. But when local conflicts become intertwined with geopolitics and geoeconomics they become especially dangerous and destabilizing.
Transgender Rights in Nepal Has Entered a Hyper-Medicalized Era
Nepal’s courts have struck landmark victories for transgender rights. But a lack of clarity about implementation has led to humiliating abuses.
The Critical Missing Piece from the U.S. Energy Transition
Competition with China over minerals is meaningless if the prize is a dead planet.
Outreach to Russia
Let’s incentivize Russia’s turn back toward the West and away from colonizing territories on its periphery.
Rare Earth Mining: Sacrificing the Environment to Save the Planet?
A rare earth elements project in Sweden is frozen because of non-compliance with environmental standards. But new European regulations on critical minerals could change that.
Korean Armistice, Ukrainian Ceasefire
Pity the country that has no armistice, but pity the country that needs an armistice.
Drilling Our Way to Climate Doom
The United States leads the world in oil and natural gas production.
We Oppose McCarthyism and Apologizing for China
Here’s how to oppose Cold War rhetoric and still be an internationalist who supports democracy and human rights.
Cuba 1962 and Ukraine 2022
The confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union in 1962 holds important lessons for addressing the potential for nuclear escalation today in Ukraine.
Decolonizing Crimea
Crimea has long been the object of Russian and Soviet colonialism. How can Crimea change that?
How Israel Occupied Itself
Israel’s crisis is not about democracy but occupation.
Peace in Their Time
Peace activists should be clamoring for a peace on Ukrainian terms. Since Ukraine is the victim in this conflict, it should ideally decide the timing and the parameters of any peace deal.
El Salvador’s Dangerous Democratic Backslide
The world’s “coolest dictator” is imprisoning innocents at rates not seen since the country’s dictatorship and civil war. Solidarity activists are fighting back.