The U.S. government should be making it more difficult to sell weapons—at home as well as abroad.
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Europe’s Populist Reformation
What Martin Luther can teach us about Marine Le Pen and Europe’s far-right reformation.
Participatory Totalitarianism
We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
Coup Fever
Despite the lip service given to democracy the world over, coups remain a popular last resort. Here’s why.
Piketty in Elysium
If inequality sells in bookstores and box offices, it will sell at the polls as well.
The Three-War Doctrine
Hyping threats from Russia, China, and the rest of the world, the U.S. War Party is gearing up to reassert American power.
Obama in the Funhouse
To avoid the escalation in east-west tensions, both Putin and Obama need to view each other with a great deal more clarity and understanding.
Earth: Game Over?
We’re in the middle of a sixth mass extinction, and this will be the first one—and possibly the last—we will witness as human beings.
It’s Our Party
Iranians have a sovereign right to choose whomever they want to represent them at the UN, just as Texans have the right to choose whatever Ivy League meathead they want to represent them in Congress.
NATO on Viagra
At 65, NATO should get off its new meds and act its age. It’s time for downsizing and memoir-writing, not hanky-panky in the east.