Unless the U.S. can accept a more modest role in a multipolar world, more Afghanistan-type misadventures are inevitable.
Immigration: Biden’s Biggest Foreign Policy Test
Why only a Marshall Plan for Central America has a shot at dealing with the region — and why it makes political and economic sense.
A Hard Reckoning for the Democrats: Race, Class and Joe Biden’s Election
That Democrats only defeated Donald Trump by so narrow a margin suggests that they need to re-think their political strategy big time.
Biden and the American Left
Joe Biden may not lead in moving toward a future that is more social and more democratic, but he cannot stop the Left’s momentum towards it.
Could the Pandemic Re-elect Trump?
Has the coronavirus crisis really severely damaged, if not doomed, Trump’s chances of being re-elected? What the Democrats must do to win.
Must US Democrats Be Moderates?
Are Democrats really not allowed to have a progressive candidate for president?
Davos is Trump’s Kind of Town
As the wealth of two-thirds of the world’s billionaires is based on inheritance, monopoly and cronyism, Trump will be among friends in Davos.
Trump: No Isolationist
For all the talk of “America First,” Trump is a full-blown corporate internationalist.
TPP: The “National Security” Sales Pitch
Like other trade deals since NAFTA, is the TPP also just a device for capitalists to drive down the wages of American workers?