Quit twitter on Monday, which as this is written was the day before yesterday. A thick front of clouds hangs in the sky outside, looming over like a menacing storm suspended overhead and waiting to strike. The instantaneity of an endless scroll of real-time news and commentary from multitudes of…

In March of 2014, the current president, then a reality TV celebrity and brand ambassador for his own name, tweeted that Vladimir Putin “doesn’t want Alaska because the Environmental Protection Agency will make it impossible for him to drill for oil!” The same day, around an hour earlier in the…

Far from “draining the swamp,” the current administration has contrived to make it more dank and malodorous than ever before. Alan Rappeport, writing in today’s New York Times, reports that half a year following the massive tax cuts passed by the GOP — on behalf of ultra-wealthy benefactors who claim…

At least I tell myself I’m a writer, even though I’ve never gotten a byline — not including many articles published in my college newspaper and that one that was shared with someone else for the New York Observer magazine back in ’11—or been paid for anything I’ve written. Sometimes…

Allow me to start off with a few caveats: I don’t think “open borders” are necessarily a good idea, and criminal gangs being targeted by immigration enforcement is not exactly the same thing as undocumented workers being rounded up en masse. As a U.S. citizen who is not and will…

A recent report from Isabel Kershner and Iyad Abuheweila relates that on the 20th of April, “Palestinians protested for a fourth Friday along the security fence dividing Gaza from Israel, some of them burning tires, hurling rocks or flying kites with flaming tails in the hope of setting ablaze the…

The question hangs in the air like a stagnant breath that will not dissipate: Will we see it in our lifetime? …

Perhaps not, but worth beginning the New Year on a positive note. The global stage, as it were, appears to be aflame. However, we did not start the fire. The world’s been burning for as long as it’s been turning. Yes, I know owe some money in royalties, yet it…

Credit Suisse published its Global Wealth Report for 2017, dated this month, which found that “global mean wealth” is at a new record high, or $56,540 per adult. Incidentally, median income in the United States is about $59,000. Yet “inequality has contributed to edge upwards,” their analysts cautioned, “so that…