There is a simple problem professors sometimes challenge their intermediate econ students with on the first day of class.

President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from ...

News about the fire arrived in fragments. First, that the blaze in Eaton Canyon was spreading rapidly, then that a few homes in the foothills were consumed, then whole neighborhoods, including my ...

The United States–Saudi “petrodollar” arrangement has underpinned American economic and military power for nearly five decades. In essence, oil exports from Saudi Arabia (and later OPEC ...

What happened in this year’s election was not some kind of flowering of American fascism, but a rebellion against a hated, out-of-touch Democratic Party elite. The primary driver of the election ...

The American disaster in Vietnam was supposed to have put to rest the folly of US military interventions to shore up tottering regimes abroad. The ...

Over the last five or so decades, American elections have become increasingly defined by what they don’t accomplish. The classical liberal model of free and fair elections to select ...

He who laughs Just hasn’t yet received The terrible news. – Bertolt Brecht Terror and anticipation begin the moment iftar ends. That is when the ...

The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United States, where dissent is met not with debate but with brute force, and ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping street on the outskirts of ...

For the past six decades, Indonesia has been an occupying colonial power in West Papua. The United Nations is responsible for this and its atrocious consequences, as John Saltford meticulously ...

If there is to be a broad-based, democratic resistance, Kurosawa’s film suggests, the “hungry Samurai” who lead it must mobilize desire as well as necessity. The seven samurai offered ...