I am referring to Kurt Volker : The president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has revealed text messages of conversations between himself and se...

Lost in the shuffle this past week was one piece of good news for Trump: a tentative trad deal with Japan that he and Japan's PM Shinzoe...

While I was preoccupied with other things, the US left settled on a pair of competing climate change narratives.  By the time I looked, the ...

I have been watching Ken Burns's "Country Music"  series on PBS.  May not watch too much more of it as I am not that intereste...

This is going to be a tentative post because there is much that remains unclear.  What I am going to do is to make it clear that stories tha...

On September 2, 2019, Frederic L. Pryor died at age 86, which has now been reported in obits in both the  NY Times and the Washington Post. ...

Or "wither Ukraine?" some might suggest?  But no, after nerly 30 years of serious economic stagnation and massive corruption, alon...

Saudi Oil Minister al Falih, who also ran ARAMCO, has been replaced by Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz  al Sa'ud, half brother of Cro...

We have now learned that on Aug. 27 last week Matin Weitzman hanged himself, leaving a note citing his failure to share in last year's N...

The New York Times has an excellent dissection today of the Trump presidency as a reality TV show that has managed to set up shop at 1600 P...

I have been posting here periodically on how it seems that the Dems do not seem to have a strong or well-defined position about Trump's ...

Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital : The temporal aspect is particularly striking,’ writes philosopher Stephen Gardiner, who has done perhaps mo...

Born on April Fool's Day in 1942, Martin Weitzman died yesterday on August 27, 2019 at age 77.  Several of us here had long advocated th...

In his newly published Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care ,  Giorgos Kallis challenges what has become the ...

Even before Donald Trump departed for the G7 in Biarritz France, he threatened another trade war this time with the host country over the di...