Much of the carnage that has ravaged Syria during the past seven years is due to the actions of the United States and its allies in the Middle East. Now,...
The Global Partnership for Education, a worthy and capable initiative to promote education in 65 low-income countries, is having what the jargon of...
This Christmas, America’s gift to the world was a $285 million cut in the United Nations’ regular budget. Technically, the U.N. regular budget reflects a...
Friends of Germany and Europe around the world have been breathing a sigh of relief at the newfound willingness of Germany’s Christian Democrats and Social...
The U.S. plutocracy has declared war on sustainable development. Billionaires such as Charles and David Koch (oil and gas), Robert Mercer (finance), and...
The Las Vegas massacre and its aftermath are pure Americana. A deranged person lugs nearly two dozen high-tech assault weapons to a 32nd-floor hotel room to...
Fifteen years after George W. Bush declared that Iraq, Iran and North Korea formed “an axis of evil,” Donald Trump, in his maiden address to the United...
The U.S. is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil;...
O Freunde, nicht diese Toene! (Oh friends, not these sounds!), proclaimed the baritone in the stirring performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to the G-20...
Nearly 100 days after U.S. President Donald Trump took office, he and his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, continue to commit an economic fallacy that...
Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are...
Never in recent history has a change of leadership attracted as much attention and speculation as Donald Trump’s rise to the U.S. presidency. What this change...
The key political divide in the United States is not between parties or states; it is between generations. The millennial generation (those aged 18-35) voted...
The AIDS pandemic claimed around 36 million lives between 1981 and 2016, and a similar number around the world currently live with the HIV virus. Some 1.2...
The big disappointment in the world economy today is the low rate of investment. In the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, growth in high-income...
Terrorist attacks on civilians, whether the downing over Sinai of a Russian aircraft killing 224 passengers, the horrific Paris massacre claiming 130 innocent...
The bloodletting in Syria is not only the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster by far, but also one of its gravest geopolitical risks. And the United...
The accord struck in Vienna to rein in Iran’s nuclear activities has warmongers fulminating. Citizens worldwide should support U.S. President Barack Obama’s...
The Greek crisis is a tragedy for the country and a danger for the world economy. Germany is demanding that Greece continue to service its debts in full, even...
Ours is a world of impunity. Allegations of corruption swarmed around FIFA for decades, culminating in mass indictments of FIFA officials recently. Yet FIFA...
Pope Francis is calling on the world to take action against global warming, and many conservatives in the United States are up in arms. The pope should stick...
The nuclear framework agreement between Iran and the five permanent U.N. Security Council members (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China and...
ExxonMobil’s business strategy is a danger to its shareholders and the world. We were reminded of this in a report of the National Petroleum Council’s Arctic...
It is truly odd to read Paul Krugman rail, time and again, against the British government. His latest screed begins with the claim that “Britain’s economic...
One year ago, I was in Brazil to launch the Brazilian chapter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an initiative of U.N....