It won’t be easy, but a workable solution to the ongoing conflict between Japan and South Korea must be found before it threatens U.S. and regional security.
My new book, The Smallest Minority, which will be published tomorrow, is currently the No. 1 new release in the “Democracy” category at Amazon. And it is a book that is about democracy — but it is not a celebration of it.
We need to take a long hard look at the way we view criminal offenses -- particularly nonviolent drug crimes -- in this country. The current system disproportionately punishes women of color, as well as trauma survivors.
It’s one thing to ask millions of Americans to sacrifice their security for the sake of the larger common good. It’s quite another to ask for that same sacrifice in the absence of evidence that the policy will accomplish what it is designed to accomplish.
After his famous "End of History" essay, Fukuyama emphasized in subsequent writings the human thirst for recognition and renown. But in retrospect he may not have appreciated the galvanizing power of religion and nationalism. His elite audience certainly did not.
Representative Joaquin Castro (D., Texas) inadvertently exposed one of his own donors in an effort to publicly shame San Antonio-area Trump supporters.
A dizzying tour through a world you’ll be horrified to recognize as your own. With biting appraisals of social media, political hustlers, journalists and identity politics, The Smallest Minority is a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful book about what we human beings have done to ourselves.
