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The Future of Korean Democracy

The German government recently arrested 25 members of a conspiratorial right-wing group plotting to overthrow the government. One of those arrested was a member of a defunct German royal family that the group hoped to install as Germany’s new leader. In the United States, the Republican Party did well enough in the mid-term elections to… Continue reading The Future of Korean Democracy

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The Far Right Is Crazy – Like a Fox

Arizona is ground zero for the wackiest theories and craziest political candidates. Exhibit A: Kari Lake, the Republican who ran for governor in the recent midterm elections. Though she lost in November, she’s still campaigning — on social media, in the courts, and in her own beclouded imagination. She refuses to accept that Katie Hobbs,… Continue reading The Far Right Is Crazy – Like a Fox

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The Crypto-Populist Pyramid Scam

It should be obvious to pretty much everyone at this point that anything crypto is an old-fashioned grift, a scam, a Ponzi scheme. Those who got in on the ground floor of crypto-currencies and NFTs and the like—and then left when the going was good—have made out like bandits. The rest of us are left… Continue reading The Crypto-Populist Pyramid Scam

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Changing My Mind on Ukraine

In the early 1990s, as the war in Yugoslavia spread to Bosnia, I took what I considered to be a principled position. I backed the UN-imposed arms embargo to the region. I urged friends and colleagues not to support actions to escalate the war. I believed that I was in the pro-peace camp. I hoped… Continue reading Changing My Mind on Ukraine

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What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South

To keep the planet from overheating, there’s just so much more carbon that humans can pump into the atmosphere. From the onset of the Industrial Revolution until today, humanity has used up approximately 83 percent of its “carbon budget”—the amount of carbon the atmosphere can absorb and not exceed the Paris climate agreement’s aspirational goal… Continue reading What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South

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No Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin is playing the long game. The Russian leader believes that he can outwait all of his adversaries. Since he has ruled over Russia for more than two decades, he obviously has sound political instincts (as well as a well-deserved reputation for ruthlessness). He is gambling that the Ukrainians, the Europeans, and the Americans… Continue reading No Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine

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Will Democracies Be Polarized Out of Existence?

Every election these days seems more consequential than the last. Oh my god, Lula won in Brazil! Can you believe that Netanyahu just came out on top in Israel–again! Forget about purple America, Blue and Red are tearing the United States apart! In the days of yore, democratic elections pitted candidates of wildly different philosophies.… Continue reading Will Democracies Be Polarized Out of Existence?

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The Future of China’s Green Revolution

When it comes to a global clean energy transition, China is both part of the problem and part of the solution. On the problem side, China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world by a rather wide margin. In 2020, China was responsible for a little over 30 percent of annual carbon… Continue reading The Future of China’s Green Revolution

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Is Ukraine Going Too Far?

In the last couple months, Ukraine has successfully pushed back against Russia’s invading forces. It retook a large chunk of territory around the northeastern city of Kharkiv. It is on the verge of recapturing the only major city—Kherson in the south—that Russia has occupied since February. Ukrainian forces have also targeted airfields in Crimea and… Continue reading Is Ukraine Going Too Far?

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Iran: A Winter-Spring Anti-Romance

The young people who took to the streets in 1979 as part of the Iranian revolution are now in their sixties. They haven’t quite aged out of politics, but they’re getting close. It’s a dangerous time for any revolution when the generation that transformed society prepares to exit the stage. The rising generation often has… Continue reading Iran: A Winter-Spring Anti-Romance

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The Latest Content

Articles

  • The Future of Korean Democracy
  • The Far Right Is Crazy – Like a Fox
  • The Crypto-Populist Pyramid Scam
  • Changing My Mind on Ukraine
  • What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South
  • No Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine
  • Will Democracies Be Polarized Out of Existence?
  • The Future of China’s Green Revolution
  • Is Ukraine Going Too Far?
  • Iran: A Winter-Spring Anti-Romance
  • So, What About Those Other Wars?
  • Fascism: Hello, Goodbye
  • United in Climate Suffering, Divided in Climate Solutions
  • Is Putin in a Corner?
  • Exceptionalism Goes Global
  • Isn’t It Time to Challenge the Growth Paradigm
  • Learning from Gorbachev’s Failures
  • Will 2022 Mark the Turning Point in the Climate Crisis?
  • The Green New Deal Goes Local
  • Taiwan and the Virtues of Ambiguity

Events

  • Right Across the World: Italy, Sweden, Brazil, November 30, 2022
  • Tyrants on Twitter, September 6, 2022
  • The Future of the Korean Peninsula: Current Conflict, Future Peace, September 12, 2022
  • The Global Far Right’s Assault on Democracy
  • Clowntime

Interviews

Tyrants on Twitter, Cambridge Forum, September 6, 2022

Splinterlands’ Climate Dystopia, Chris Hedges, July 7, 2022

Is Putin Writing the Far Right’s Epitaph, Burt Cohen, March 25, 2022

Ukraine Crisis, Parallax Views, March 9, 2022

National Security or Climate Change Multiplier, Extinction Rebellion Radio, March 8, 2022

How the Left Fights the New Global Right, Van Jackson, January 8, 2022

The International Far Right, Truthout, November 20, 2021

Global Right’s Bizarre Obsession with Pedophilia, Burt Cohen, August 4, 2021

Clowntime, Chris Bangert-Drowns, WPFW, July 19, 2021

COVID-19 and Authoritarianism, Burt Cohen, July 29, 2020

The Feasibility of Detente between the US and DPRK, NKNews, May 19, 2020

The Future of Capitalism after COVID-19, WPKN, May 17, 2020

Coronavirus and the Global Economy, Truthout, April 9, 2020

Pandemic Politics, Foreign Exchanges, March 25, 2020

Globalization and the Pandemic, Parallax Views, March 20, 2020

Highlighted Articles

  • What’s Up with the Herd? FPIF
  • Death and the Economy: A Dialogue, FPIF
  • COVID-19 and the Global Economy, Inference
  • Revisiting the Goldilocks Apocalypse, TomDispatch
  • A Global Green New Deal Could Defeat the Far Right—And Save the Planet, Newsweek
  • The Widening Rift Between the US and China, The Nation
  • Between Rocks and a Hard Place, Foreign Policy
  • Deserts vs. Development in China, Global Post
  • Infantilizing North Korea, Hankyoreh
  • Jeju Island: Paradise with a Dark Side, Washington Post
  • Waiting for the Curtain, Washingtonian
  • My Backlogged Pages, New York Times
  • Starting Where North Korea Is, 38North
  • Will Facebook Remake the World? Harvard International Review
  • Are We All North Koreans Now? TomDispatch
  • Bringing a Living Wage to the Farm, Alternet
  • Writers from the Other Asia, The Nation
  • The Forgotten Lessons of Helsinki, World Policy Journal
  • The Politics of Dog, American Prospect
  • Containment Lite: U.S. Policy toward Russia and Its Neighbors, FPIF
  • The Costs and Dangers of NATO Expansion, FPIF
  • The Selling of the Russian President, 1993, Z Magazine
  • The Age of Diminished Expectations (Review), Commonweal
  • Poland’s Solidarity: Who Is in Charge? Z Magazine
  • Corruptions of Empire (Review), Philadelphia City Paper

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