The Trump administration is claiming powers in both domestic and foreign affairs that vastly exceed those of prior presidents. He bases his claim on his

Something very strange has happened to American colonialism. Somewhere between the shock-and-awe of Dubya's New American Century and the explosive verbal

The Morning of… I saw the smoke travel a few distances afar: Across the backdrop of an entire silhouetted city: Colors arose as did the sunlight: It was

The state of Washington recently reported that its endangered wolf population had declined for the first time in 16 years. The state confirmed that it has

Private equity is on the prowl for new sources of funding and workers’ personal retirement retirement savings are in the cross hairs. In the first Trump

I’ve never really understood the psychology of nationalism. Even when I was in elementary school and we were supposed to pledge our allegiance to “the

My fifth annual State of the Sexual Union address (2025), delivered live on Active Radio hosted by Hartley Pleshaw on WCAP-AM 980 and now available for

Donald Trump lives in a world of make believe. In Donald Trump land global warming isn’t happening, tens of millions of dead people get Social Security

Steve Stern. A Fool’s Kabbalah: A Novel. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2025. 287pp, $19.99. Omer Bartov, Israeli-born, renowned scholar of the Holocaust, has

How ironic: The most inefficient bureaucracy in government turns out to be Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency.” That could be humorous,

I had recently turned twenty-one in 1981, when President Ronald Reagan fired thirteen thousand striking air traffic controllers. It was a hot muggy August

The plant Cannabis sativa is an herbaceous flowering annual that was originally native to central and eastern Asia. It has been cultivated throughout

As a gap between billionaires and everybody else swells, a bipartisan project decades in the making, Jodi Dean, author and professor, considers if we are

I recently went to the protest in New York City — one of more than 1,400 demonstrations in all 50 states across this country and elsewhere in the world —

Russia’s cross-border attack on Sumy in northeast Ukraine this Palm Sunday killed at least 34 people and injured 117 others. The missile barrage seems

In February, the economist Gabriel Zucman posted an absolutely stunning graphic online that depicts the wealth of America richest 0.00001 percent as a

For years, anxious and lonely men – and women -- have despaired over their prospects for ever finding a love partner. For those wallowing in misery – or

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein A recent essay produced by AI has been

This is the sixteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the

The West has long cherished political correctness as though it were a core democratic value. This drive to ‘civilise’ public discourse has been especially