From Singapore’s public housing to Estonia’s free internet service, the rest of the world has a lot to teach the U.S. about how to make a better society.

The former United Nations diplomat explains growing plutocracy in the U.S., rapid economic progress in Asia, and why there’s still hope for a better world.

They rejected kings and were sincerely concerned about the possibility of a dictatorship. But we need to move past founder-worship and focus on justice.

They’ve gone deranged with hatred and fear of migrants. Now, billions of dollars are being invested to build brutal new prison camps. How can we get our humanity back?

The president is slashing disaster aid, dismantling the agencies that gather weather data, and making it easier to drill, burn, and pollute. If he’s not stopped, millions will suffer.

The agriculture industry hopes you won't notice their battle to keep torturing ducks.

The profit-obsessed Hollywood machine killed Cimino’s career, but films like “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” and “Heaven’s Gate” are well worth revisiting.

Subsidies can support nascent industries in need of a foothold or serve the public good. At this point, fossil fuels are neither.