U.S. Politics

For months, Western military analysts have sung a chorus of contempt for Russia’s military performance in the Ukraine war. Time and again, Western media have dutifully repeated — without a [...]

On November 30, at Oxford High School near Detroit, Michigan, the United States suffered its 29th school shooting since the beginning of 2021. The deadly shooting also marked the 651st mass [...]

The National Post is apoplectic again. This time, the target of the Post’s ire is an online event held in November by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, the Canadian Peace Congress and the [...]

(This article was originally published in Canadian Dimension.) In early 2008, as the subprime mortgage crisis laid waste to the American financial system, a young, charismatic, African-American [...]

I recently travelled to Puerto Rico to examine the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. While there, I learned that, faced by an existential climate crisis, the Trump administration is exploiting the [...]

According to a new poll by researchers at George Mason and Yale Universities, climate change concerns are more bipartisan than political elites would have us believe. Among other things, their [...]

For the Real News, I speak Dr. John Kotcher of George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication. As Dr. Kotcher explains, a new poll has revealed that Americans’ belief that [...]

Note: This article is adapted from a speech I delivered on October 27, 2017 in Corinthos, Greece, at a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution. The year 2017 is [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, about the latest salvo in the war of words between Trump and North [...]

On The Real News, I talk to Dana Nuccitelli, an environmental scientist and blogger for The Guardian, about Donal Trump’s remarkable willingness to believe fake climate news. My interview [...]