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NATO must support the US, despite Trump

How can an American president inadvertently enhance a "true threat" to America and the world - Russia? President Donald Trump eased oil sanctions on Russia previously put in place due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. With the rising cost of oil due to the troubles in the Strait of Hormuz, ...

Paul Ehrlich was wrong about everything

Biologist and author Paul Ehrlich, the most influential Chicken Little of the last century, died at the age of 93 this week. His 1968 book, "The Population Bomb," launched decades of institutional panic in government, entertainment and journalism. Ehrlich's core neo-Malthusian argument was ...

A scary rhyme across time

I'd give anything not to write it this column. But the comparisons are clear when history rhymes. President Donald Trump's America is a foghorn call across time -- to Germany in the 1930s, when Adolf Hitler rose to power legally. Note, I do (SET ITAL)not(END ITAL) mean the 1940s, when the ...

Remember: freedom is not free

At the height of the energy crisis in the 1970s, when oil prices more than sextupled, The Economist magazine showed a map of the Persian Gulf on its cover with the headline, "What's a Nice Thing Like Oil Doing in a Place Like This?" The Iranian miscreants, with whom we are now at war, ...