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...
Death and taxes are supposed to be the two inevitabilities of life but, for some of the most privileged, the latter appear to be being widely avoided by sneaky investments in tax havens abroad. As...
The year since Trump was elected has been an important year to be an Asian-American or Pacific Islander. It’s been a frustrating year. It’s been an inspiring year. At times it’s been a...
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...
As a long, long list of men in the film industry accused of sexual harassment and abuse gets ever longer, and Trump seeks to silence his accusers, politicians in London are being put under the...
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...
The UK General Election in June of this year turned around with some quite unexpected results. One of these, on the other side of my city, was the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg being beaten...
“No. Absolutely not. You cannot move into that apartment. Do you know how much I’ll worry about you if you do? Absolutely not.” Standing on a street corner in Brooklyn, in front of a bank I was...
Some years ago, I sat on a bench in the city centre and the man sitting next to me looked at me, looked at my walking stick, and said “Get off your arse and get a job”. I told him I had a job. He...
