This has not been a good year for YouTube, and Google is making a hash of it as it refuses to face up to realities. The company's failings when it comes to identifying and rectifying issues on...
American exceptionalism — the idea that the United States is unique among all other nations — gets a bad rap nowadays. Ever since we elected a sentient wig to the White House (where else would...
Come February, Janet Yellen will not be returning as Chair of the Federal Reserve. That title will belong to monetary moderate Jerome Powell, who was recently chosen by Donald Trump to replace...
For President Donald Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, their recent meeting couldn’t have gone better. Egos were stroked, there was no talk of those pesky “human rights”...
This year’s UN Climate Summit — hosted in Bonn, Germany through tomorrow, 11/17 — is almost over, but the clear leaders have emerged, and they’re not the United States. Now that Syria has...
Good morning! In case you missed it, our most popular post last week was Natalia Antonova's modest proposal: Maybe the rich shouldn't have to pay taxes? Have another suggestion for reforming the US...
People are running around and screaming about the widening gap between the rich and poor, as if the country is about to fall into that gap and disappear. What they’re not taking into account is...
George W. Bush is like America’s wacky sitcom uncle and I’m tired of it. I think you should be, too. To be fair, I don’t think too many people are giving the former president a complete pass. I...
Good morning! In case you missed it, our most popular post last week was Louise Hung's on the racial politics of Star Trek: Discovery. If you haven’t already, subscribe to the Global...
On Monday, the first in what are likely to be a series of indictments naming Trump cronies came down, sweeping up Paul Manafort and his former business partner, Richard Gates. The 31-page document...