Two recent criminal trials in the U.S. caught international attention. I refer to the Kyle Rittenhouse case in Wisconsin and the Ahmaud Arbery case in…

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center revealed striking differences in Americans’ and Canadians’ attitudes toward their political, economic and health systems. The Pew…

How quickly the tide turns. Hardly a year has passed since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer triggered protests that pressured…

The United States and China, rivals on the world stage and also the two biggest economies and the two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases made…

The Prince of darkness. Thus was Dick Cheney, one of the most unpopular figures in the history of American politics, known when he was George…

The United States is the world’s leading free market nation and it has always seemed to me that they take its basic principles very seriously.…

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center of the four major Western powers turned up some interesting if not altogether surprising results. The goal…

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Covid shrunk the global economy by 3.3 percent in 2020, the worst downturn since 1980. Almost 100 million…

For some time, corporations have had things their way. With globalization, which was largely designed by and for them, they were able to slip the…

Nuclear technology does more than make powerful weapons. It also makes for powerful politics. It allows Kim Jong-un, ruler of a sordid little dictatorship, possibly…

“After experiencing a gradual decline in respect for political rights and civil liberties over the past decade, the United States is now facing an acute…

The United States is the most unequal of the advanced countries. By far. And it’s getting worse. The ratio of the average income of the…