As Americans and people of other former colonies recognize, there’s a great deal to be said for national independence.But, at times, we might also wonder: is it sufficient?Until recently in human history, imperialism was widespread. In 1939, Britain’s Empire and Commonwealth alone had direct…

If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through a far different approach than the one now being followed by the Trump administration.Iran, as a signer of the Nuclear Nonproliferation…

Donald Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East is but the latest indication that the system of international law―which provides guidelines for the behavior of nations in world affairs―is crumbling.In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after thousands of years of violent international…

California politics is currently being shaken up thanks to a drive, led by the Service Employees International Union, to enact a one-time wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to offset federal cuts to healthcare and support public education and food assistance programs. Campaigning for the…