The author’s Dutch grandparents avoided the Holocaust by preparing for the unthinkable while their neighbors scoffed. Facing climate chaos, we must do the same today.
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Economy

Bubbles and Backlashes
As the global economy worsens and bubbles start to burst, the geopolitical blips on the radar screen are ominous.
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At Veep Debate Mike Pence Emerges as the Ted Bundy of Politics
In the echo-sphere of political punditry consensus forms rapidly, gels, and then, in short order…calcifies. The me-tooism infecting the chattering class reveals all too well how little original thought — and even less deep — drives the conversation. We saw this in the trigger-happy response to Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate when serial liar Indiana Governor Mike Pence was […]

Trumped and Stumped: A Cure for Political Polarization?
by Erik Curren
Discussions with figures from Noam Chomsky and Peter Senge to Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama offer a path to get politics unstuck by balancing love and power.

Jill Stein’s Ridiculous Run
Lefty Greenies have some laudable ideas. Why is it then that they don’t bother to really build their party and continue to advance serially failed candidates?
