US foreign policy is life-and-death. Don’t expect any meaningful questions about it in the debates.
If you’re looking for bold ideas about America’s future role in the world, don’t tune in to this week’s debates among Democratic presidential candidates. The first round of debates made clear that moderators will not ask deep questions about foreign policy. That’s fine with most candidates, who don’t want to address such questions. Viewers are […]
Bill Keating is ‘not OK’: In search of a progressive challenger for my business-as-usual representative
MANY AMERICANS FACE the same electoral dilemma that frustrates me. We are outraged by the corruption of our political system, and by the suffering it is causing countless human beings around the United States and beyond. Yet when we look at our own representatives in Congress, we see the same bland, business-as-usual, go-along-to-get-along politics that […]
In an astonishing turn, Soros and Charles Koch team up to end US ‘forever war’ policy
BESIDES BEING BILLIONAIRES and spending much of their fortunes to promote pet causes, the leftist financier George Soros and the right-wing Koch brothers have little in common. They could be seen as polar opposites. Soros is an old-fashioned New Deal liberal. The Koch brothers are fire-breathing right-wingers who dream of cutting taxes and dismantling government. […]
Who’s responsible for the border crisis? The United States
For decades since the US destabilized central American governments, thousands of people, including this woman and her children photographed in April, have fled for the US in search of work or to escape drug-related violence.
Invitation to an arms race
INTIMIDATING WEAKER COUNTRIES is normal behavior for great powers. For most of the 20th century, the United States was strong enough to keep allies in line and rivals at bay. Today, however, other countries are not so easily intimidated. Many have lost confidence in the US. At the same time, competing powers have emerged. This […]
