In an age of gross materialism the grossest materialists are set to grab the helm and steer the world according to the view they see from their gilded thrones. This is a reversion to an era of kings, czars and dictators, now refashioned for the digital age. An age when …

Trump’s War on Universities Could Kill U.S. Innovation In June 2024, at a national science and technology conference, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the high-tech sector had become “the frontline and main battlefield of international competition, profoundly reshaping the global order and the pattern of development.” He is, of …

World Sells Us Dollar Assets, Seeking Alternatives. Donald Trump wants to save the dominance of the US dollar as the global reserve currency, but his aggressive tariffs and trade war are accelerating dedollarization. Countries and investors are selling US stocks and bonds, seeking alternative reserve assets. Donald Trump has made …

The foreign policy of the United States is in the hands of the least capable, most uninformed, and most reckless morons the American education system has yet produced, and their successors, if any, will be worse. American aggression toward the world is hidden under a euphemism:  “national defense.”  In past years before  euphemisms …

The systems that protect our lives and our communities were built through years of tireless effort. They can’t be allowed to collapse overnight. America in 2025 is safer than it’s been in years. After a devastating surge during the early pandemic—when the U.S. homicide rate rose more than 30%—homicide rates have …

As presidential overreaches pile up, they underscore the urgent need for Congress and the courts to reassert their roles as checks on executive authority. U.S. President Donald Trump has turned a 60-foot-wide strip of federal land that spans three states on the southern border into a “military installation” to “address the emergency” …

Americans no longer need to treat Europeans as welfare dependents. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended his first NATO foreign ministers’ meeting and was more concerned about European sensibilities than American interests. Unfortunately, Rubio embraced the past rather than promoted the future. It would be tragic if the MAGA revolution …

Rather than turning back from the brink of nuclear war, nuclear armed states are accelerating nuclear weapons spending. We must change course. On April 8, 2010, the United States and Russia signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), a landmark achievement that capped and reduced deployed nuclear arsenals, symbolizing …

Trump’s tariffs are not a departure from business as usual; they are an extension of it and will overwhelmingly benefit the world’s financial elite. Global trade systems are not free, nor are they neutral. They were built to facilitate capital transfer and to transfer wealth upward—benefiting the rich while harming …

A new report finds that 2024 saw the biggest increase in spending since the end of the Cold War 2024 marked biggest increase in global military spending since Cold War’s end. Spurred by ongoing wars in Europe and the Middle East, global military spending rose nearly 10 percent in 2024, the biggest annual …