political

First world problems make me sick. Ignorance isn’t always bliss. The third world may have no idea that only a plane ride away, their lives would improve tenfold—or maybe they…

By Glen Greenwald In the very first online conversation I had with Edward Snowden he told me he had only one fear about coming forward: that his revelations might be…

By Samantha Kelley It’s 7am; a new day in my privileged Western life made possible for the most part on the suffering and shortages in the Third World and not…

By  Fiona Hill & Clifford G. Gaddy WHO IS MR. PUTIN? This question has never been fully answered. Vladimir Putin has been Russia’s dominant political figure for more than a…

By Rachel Carson A Fable for Tomorrow There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town…

According to its preamble the Constitution of the United States was established by “the People” — not by the states — “in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish…

By Thom Hartmann Who will tell the Millennials that the Reagan Revolution was a scam, and that it set up the Crash of 2016? Much like the generation that came…

By Adam Grant In some arenas, it seems that the costs of giving clearly outweigh the benefits. In politics, for example, Mark Twain’s opening quote suggests that diplomacy involves taking…