What a wonderful world
A system produces leaders who reflect the dominant values of its components.
Odysseus – how the world’s master of contrivance dresses down today’s creepy, lying losers
Homer shows what civilization is all about, beginning with the distinction between predatory mendacity vs. mutually-supportive, truth-based partnerships.
Putin and Trump have convinced me I was wrong about the 21st century
In the twenty-first century, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s election in 2016 have shown me several things are false.
China will decide the outcome of Russia v. the West
Is Putin the face of the future or the final gasp of the past?
The two decades that created our world’s first mass middle class
If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.
The Haitian migrant lie is a practice run for Trump’s mass deportations
Make no mistake: The demagoguery over Haitian immigrants in Ohio is just the beginning.
Helene unleashes a hurricane of anti-semitism
"How they're going at me is surprising because Marjorie Taylor Greene has made this inference that Jews control the weather, and I'm a Jewish mayor and somehow there's a correlation." Asheville's Jewish Mayor, Esther Manheimer
Perils of perverse polling—that turns the world upside down
Biden’s the stunning overachiever;/ Trump’s a pandemic of swamp fever.
Here’s why prices are still high
We need to keep tackling corporate power.
Revolt is the only barrier to a fascist America
“I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.”