"From the safety of Paris, I can finally say what I want to the chief of the Pakistani army: dissent is essential to progress. Don’t censor it."

We need lots more housing in prosperous US cities, but building a lot of privately-funded luxury housing in one neighborhood can raise rents there even as it helps decrease rents for the whole city.

Massive construction of public housing could be a solution.

The International Energy Agency retards reduction of fossil fuels by persistently projecting a high rate of use into the future.

From Malala to Parkland, Why Are the Victims Demonised? It's Because the Powerful Want to Stay in Control.

The bully said he would remove all US troops from Syria, which would leave the Kurds at the mercy of Erdoğan.

In the past, I opposed US intervention in Syria because there was no side that deserved support. I changed that view when the US began supporting the Syrian Kurds, because they support secularism and human rights. They are the only visible hope of good government in Syria. I hope they won't be crushed.