Yes, Trump really is crazy
According to the The Canadian Psychiatric Association there is narcissism, and then there is narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), a mental disorder or illness. The Diagnostic…
Science under threat
The new Republican regime in Washington is waging a veritable war on science. This isn’t something we are unfamiliar with in this country. Science was…
It’s the cruelty that appals
The chaos taking place in Washington reminds me of Bananas, Woody Allen’s comedy about revolution in a fictitious Latin American republic. Only it isn’t funny.…
Big environmental win sans the U.S.
The U.S., under new management, has taken a remarkable U-turn. Long recognized as the “leader of the free world,” it now seems to have switched…
Must we talk interminably about this Trump person?
Donald Trump has figured much in my posts lately. And it irks me. Why am I wasting so much of my time on a vulgar…
The world regresses
Lord Peter Mandelson has not always been a fan of Donald Trump. The long-time member of the British Labour Party and former cabinet minister, has…
And what about the .70 percent?
In these days of increasing international tensions, we hear incessantly about the magic two percent. Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have agreed…
Return to manifest destiny
Any commitment the United States may have had to a rules-based international order has been sabotaged by President Trump. As far as he is concerned,…
How far will the felonious president go?
Since the U.S. presidential election, I have had to pinch myself occasionally to believe I’m still in the real world. It just gets more and…
Who should pay the piper for pollution?
“A paltry sum,” said Chandni Raina, India’s representative at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. Ms. Raina was referring to…
Who or what is to blame for Trump?
How, exactly, does a such a creature as Donald Trump become president of the most powerful nation on Earth? The blame falls primarily, of course,…
The end of the republic?
Did the American people just vote, in a free and fair election, to terminate their experiment in Republican government? They’ve had a good run—248 years—but…