A few thoughts for the silent majority. There are only 193 countries in the world, and I like to have some idea of what's ...

A Golden Age “In the United States, we’ve announced the golden age of America,” Trump said at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum ...

Dictator Donald Trump’s ego has gone global and dominates the news cycle.  His domestic opponents are left with too little ...

As Trump and friends claim control over the country, celebrating their war on migrants – “the enemy” of the moment, whom they ...

During President Donald Trump’s first three months in office, his administration has targeted dozens of former officials who criticized him or opposed his ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a skilled salesperson, though the product he peddles is deeply flawed. His current challenge is to convince ...

Congressional Republicans are moving quickly to enact Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” that would cut spending on the social safety net and increase ...

For folks who have not followed the Elon Musk-DOGE clown show, their main exhibit is the so-called “Wall of Receipts” that is supposed to show all the ...

WOO-HOO! There’s a new bookstore in Washington Heights – three blocks from where we live! I must qualify my WOO-HOO, however, ...

When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed Rutger Bregman, once hailed as the Dutch progressive ...

I’m married to a German citizen who’s a life-long resident here in Hamburg, and I spent most of the winter and spring in this ...

There is joy in diplomatic Geneva. The neutral, good offices convenor of Reagan-Gorbachev and Putin–Biden summits is back in ...