| Dec 18, 2013 | Peace / SecurityYou may have noticed that a number of countries are angry at the United States. It’s that Edward Snowden thing. Spying has suddenly provided a convenient horse for foreign leaders to ride in venting their simmering frustration at being constantly pushed around...
| | Environment / HealthI always thought the best job in the world was being Dick Cheney’s mea culpa coach. The pay wouldn’t be much but, in terms of not having much to do, it ranks up there with being a Christmas shopper for Osama bin Laden. Now I have discovered an even better...
| Dec 11, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyWorld Bank economist Branko Milanovic does serious work. His explorations into global income distribution have won him a wide — and appreciative — audience in scholarly and policy-making circles the world over. But Milanovic isn’t always crunching data and...
| | Environment / HealthSanta’s changing some policies at the North Pole. You see, he’s concerned about global warming. If the polar ice caps melt, his workshop will sink into the Arctic Ocean. He’d become a climate refugee. What’s more, our changing climate is...
| | Peace / SecurityIn the standard spy thriller, our hero gets captured by agents of a repressive government. They take him into a dark interrogation room, where the sadistic spymaster hisses: “We have ways of making you talk.” In real life, the director of our National...
