IMPORTANT READS

WORLD WATCH-Recently I had an opportunity to brief a group of European diplomats and journalists on a variety of conflicts, with a focus on the Middle East.

MY TURN--From a political perspective, Donald Trump's behavior is utterly nonsensical.

GUEST WORDS--Covid in America is so bad that more than 250,000 people are dead.

MY TURN--So here’s an odd, mostly overlooked scrap of recent news: Donald Trump wants to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq before he leaves office, and is expected to announce a drawdown of troops in both countries.

GUEST WORDS--For those of you who wanted to see Donald Trump skedaddled from the White House, this is the week you should be celebrating Thanksgiving giving thanks to Indigenous peoples for giving Biden the White House.

GUEST COMMENTARY-Ooof. The bonkers clown show keeps spiraling further out there.

VIEW FROM HERE--With President-elect Biden set to enter the White House next January, a question many people are asking is how best to use President Obama in the next administration?  

POST ELECTION BLUES-No! No concede! Won’t! Won’t, won’t, won’t! 

GUEST WORDS-Oppressive institutions routinely paint activists as “extremists.” This tells the public to fear change and helps those in power to maintain the status quo.

WORLD WATCH-While I cheer Biden’s victory in the presidential election, I lament the state of the union Trump is leaving behind.

MAKING SENSE OUT OF CHAOS-Students and friends sometimes ask me what can be done in the face of the flood of despairing news of the day.

POST-ELECTION VIEW-Biden won — so Trump seems to be attempting a coup. And meanwhile, this election has revealed just how bitterly, painfully divided America really is.

VIEW FROM HERE-I was texting with my sister the other day, and President Trump was set to make a public announcement for the first time since he lost the election.

COMMENTARY-Imagine for a moment that Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election in 2016. 

PERSPECTIVE--And now . . . what? 

ELECTORAL UNCERTAINTY-There are less than ten days to go now. It’s the most crucial election in American history.

ELECTION PAYOFF--Joe Biden is headed to the White House, and he has low-income voters to thank.

ANALYSIS--As I watch America wrestle with the task of un-electing an orange-tinted ball of insecurity and pettiness, I’m trying to figure out how to sum up my feelings in a way that does more than express frustration and/or despair.

ELECTION 2020, CONTINUED---Mixing with the jubilation shared by tens of millions across the U.S. and the world generated by President-elect Joe Biden's declared victory this weekend,

CORONA WATCH-Let’s say you’re a millionaire. That’s a lot of money, right? Now let’s say you’re a billionaire. That’s a lot more money! But how much more? 

THE ELECTION, WHAT HAPPENED? During the late 1940s, researchers, led by Theodor Adorno, studied the historical conditions that paved the way for the rise of fascist regimes in the 1920s and 1930s, World War II, and the Holocaust.