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Voters rebel against AI data centers’ electricity costs and fossil fuel pollution, water use, and job loss damage.

The collapse of nuclear arms control is not returning the world to Cold War stability, but pushing it into a more complex and less governable nuclear order. As treaties lapse, latent up-arming capacity, compressed decision times, and multi-actor deterrence dynamics combine to raise systemic risk. This article examines how the erosion of formal limits—rather than malign intent—has made nuclear escalation easier, more opaque, and more dangerous, and why the United States bears central responsibility for dismantling the institutional architecture that once constrained catastrophe.

A backer of Iran regime change efforts asked to have his ugly, misogynistic exchange with me published, and I am complying with his wishes.

All six Latin American leaders share an ideological affinity with Trump, and are the closest thing his government has to strategic partners/vassals in the region.

Why the economics discipline has ignored John Ruskin’s seminal concept of illith, as in destructive activity.

A study in Brazil found that urban slums can offer upward mobility due to access to public education. But how true is that around the world?

American 2028 presidential hopefuls, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, treated the Munich Security Conference like an audition.

Dreams of oil‑funded prosperity In Alberta clash with Canada’s Constitution and the realities of a warming world.

The decision to go to war with Iran appears to have been made, and how that will sink Trump’s already failing rule and risk nuclear war.

Moscow and Tehran hold economic upper hand in the region, but current ruling groups in both Armenia and Azerbaijan are no longer responding to rational and mutual national interests. 

Ralph Linton, arguably the father of what we now call identity politics, had some impressive insights as well as blind spots.

Defamation is a movie about the exploitation of anti-Semitism to keep Jews fearful and compliant.