Pulling the world back from three crises — nuclear weapons, climate change and AI — would be the ultimate test of his deal-making skills

The Trump presidency has been an exhausting crisis-a-day affair, profoundly damaging to the American spirit and its mission in the world. The crises will continue. But some good will come from them…

Sixty years of inaction in Washington have not made climate change go away. Hushing won’t either. In the meantime, the American people, present and future, are paying an increasingly intolerable pr…

Confronting the singularity and asking whether global rules can keep AI’s most dangerous capabilities in check

Intelligence is one thing, and machines can be imbued with it. But wisdom, morality and intuition are the domain of humans. They should never be removed from the chain of command.

The next presidential election is more than two years away, but several women are already mentioned as possible candidates.

We should not mourn its passing.

There is little mystery about the appeal of socialism, but there is confusion.

The decisions we each make every day, particularly how we use energy, influence whether the weather becomes more extreme.

Those who most covet the job of attorney general may not be worthy to have it. The best candidates are willing to resign from the department in its defense.

Trump has subverted equal justice to create two classes of citizens: one privileged, the other persecuted.

The most important thing Congress can do to strengthen national security is to remove Trump from office as soon as possible.

This anniversary year is a time to celebrate how far America has come and to ask a direct question: Is it time to update the Constitution?

Is the United States ready to emerge from its spiritual crisis?

Voters tired of the mess at the highest levels of government and the lowest tiers of the economy could make Nov. 3 their happiest day in a very long time.

Trump has undoubtedly done more damage to the federal government than we know. It will take a long time to identify and repair it. Democrats should tell us how they’d jump-start the process in Janu…

Over the decades, whether we paid attention or not, one thing has remained constant: Our failure to get global warming under control is the greatest betrayal that any generation has ever imposed on…

This channel is full of songs that I have created and that are intended to inspire people to resist Trump and Trumpism. And maybe along the way we might trol...

We have allowed thieves, vandals, ideologues and power brokers to steal our country. It’s time to take it all back.

With the threat of nuclear war growing, violence is not a suitable alternative for deterrence

By William S. Becker

By William S. Becker

The American people have seen several big oil scandals over the last century. We have survived Teapot Dome, the collapse of Enron, windfall profiteering during the 1970s oil crisis, Exxon Valdez, D…

Too bad the world is so addicted to oil; it’s harder to turn off the sun

There are many reasons to revolt against the federal government’s regressive policies today. The enormous threat to the quality of our lives, and our children’s, is certainly one.

By William S. Becker

The real national emergency is the prospect that Trump, his administration and his supporters will declare an electoral emergency and either rig or try to overturn the midterm results. The history …

The heroes of the Industrial Revolution are now a principal cause of premature deaths, childhood asthma, air pollution and increasingly violent weather.