President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement is not just dangerous for the world; it is also sociopathic.Without remorse, Trump is willfully inflicting harm on others.The declaration by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nati

US President Donald Trump’s ravings against the 2015 Paris climate agreement are partly a product of his ignorance and narcissism.

Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are more powerful than the decrees of men.So pity Donald Trump, who really believes that his executive orders can hold back the

Never in recent history has a change of leadership attracted as much attention and speculation as Donald Trump’s rise to the US presidency.What this change signifies and what it portends requires unravelling three mysteries, because there are three versions of Trump.The first Tru

The key political divide in the United States is not between parties or states; it is between generations.The millennial generation (those aged 18-35) voted heavily against Donald Trump and will form the backbone of resistance to his policies.Older Americans are divided, but Trum

American foreign policy is at a crossroads. The United States has been an expanding power since its start in 1789.

The AIDS pandemic claimed around 36 million lives between 1981 and 2016, and a similar number around the world currently live with the HIV virus.Some 1.2 million people died of AIDS last year, and another 1.8 million were infected.Those statistics are daunting, but the startling

The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE).With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, a lack of computers, larg

Syria’s civil war is the most dangerous and destructive crisis on the planet. Since early 2011, hundreds of thousands have died; around 10 million Syrians have been displaced; Europe has been convulsed with Daesh terror and the political fallout of refugees; and the United S