If the U.S. and China think they can grow at each other’s expense, they’re snookering themselves.
Making China Great Again
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Wealthy Americans Don’t Have to Go to Panama to Hide Their Wealth
Who needs offshore tax havens in Panama? Nearly 300,000 corporations — including some owned by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — are incorporated at a single Delaware address.
The Pentagon Shouldn’t Get to Absolve Itself for Bombing a Hospital
We need an independent investigation of the brutal U.S. attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, which killed 42 people.
She Loves a Man in a Uniform
Can Hillary Clinton’s advocacy of the use of force be chalked up to her affection for members of the military?
Big Oil Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight
As the Paris climate deal nears implementation, the possibilities for corporate subterfuge are endless. But the real problem may be our own lifestyles.
Trump May Be a Blowhard. But Is He an American Exceptionalist?
Donald Trump is the first person to run openly and without apology on a platform of American decline.
Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War.
Military contractors have shelled out over $1 million to the 2016 presidential candidates — including over $200,000 to Hillary Clinton alone.
Flush With Cold War “Victory,” U.S. Still Fails to Understand Russia’s Security Needs
A U.S. return to bilateral hostilities with Russia is a costly diversion from both nations’ security needs in a multilateral world.
It Doesn’t Require Much for a Nuclear Ban Treaty to Be Successful
A nuclear ban treaty is a small, but important, step towards nuclear disarmament.
Trump’s Bad Ideas Aren’t Un-American After All
Many of the GOP front-runner’s worst proposals are playing out already.