On October 24, a United States presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu that the war is over, because it’s ...
If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And there’s a slightly less common corollary to that: ...
[You can read “If She Loses, Part 1: Kamala Wrong on the Issues” here.] Democratic US presidential candidate Kamala Harris has never won a single primary vote in the 2020 or 2024 elections, so at ...
After three decades of relative stability since the Cold War, the global landscape has shifted. The unipolar world order that defined geopolitics since the 1990s is crumbling, and a new and ...
Both experts on fascism and fascists themselves recognize that Donald Trump does not endorse the revolutionary, far-right authoritarianism that characterizes fascism. But Trump is a golden opportunity ...
In 1958, sixteen-year-old William Arnold asked his parents for permission to use the family’s car. He wanted to go to the movies. When his father refused, he took a rifle, shot both parents dead and ...
A few weeks ago, as I sat at the dinner table eating eggplant parmesan, my aunt asked me a political question: “How do you make sure you listen to what both sides have to say?” I answered her with a ...
US President Donald Trump’s biggest strategic mistake when he was in the White House was one of entropy. As physicists explain, a closed system invariably tends towards disorder. In more common ...
While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that has ...
In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. This ...
Ottawa sees itself admirably as a champion of the global downtrodden. While this is true to a large extent, there are two caveats. First, it is a selective champion. It has repeatedly scolded China ...
Keeping track of the multitude of institutions within the European Union has never been an easy task. Occasionally, one of them produces news worth reporting. And sometimes that news promises to have ...