The Original Donald Trump | Frank Rich

Roy Cohn in 1986, a few months before he died. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests -- just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onet ...

A Nobel Prize for Trump and Kim Is No Joke | Leonid Bershidsky

Donald Trump (left) and Kim Jong Un. Images lifted from Al Jazeera (credit: Reuters) If they manage to achieve peace in Korea, they’ll be genuine heroes, whatever else they are. April 27, 2018 (Bloom ...

BOOKS: Retreat From a Rising Sea | Dr. Jeff Masters

Above: An excellent example of a well-managed strategic retreat from the coast occurred in 1999 when the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks was moved 2,900 feet back from an ero ...

How Congress Censored the Internet | Elliot Harmon

In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad Law Elliot Harmon -- Electronic Frontier Foundation March 21, 2018 Today was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. ...

Stephen Hawking pinned his hopes on ‘M-theory’ to fully explain the universe -- here’s what it is | Lorenzo Bianchi

Stephen Hawking. Lwp Kommunikáció/Flickr, CC BY-SA March 15, 2018 (The Conversation) -- Rumour has it that Albert Einstein spent his last few hours on Earth scribbling something on a piece of paper i ...

What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself. | Aviv Ovadya

Aviv Ovadya -- The World Post Feb. 22, 2018 (Johan Viirok/Creative Commons) Aviv Ovadya is chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan and a Knight ...

Funding Infrastructure: Why China Is Running Circles Around America | Ellen Brown

‘One Belt, One Road,’ a planned modern Silk Road with China at its heart Feb. 27, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking o ...

What Wall Street’s Critics Miss | David L. Bahnsen

The global finance industry makes for a convenient scapegoat, but its excesses are merely a symptom of our culture’s maladies. Photo: Charging Bull by Arturo Di Modica World News Trust Editor's Note: ...

Bitcoin Futures May Offer No Way Out | Stephen Gandel

Dec. 12, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin traders and watchers have been busy heralding the entrance of cryptocurrencies futures. What they should really be focused on is the exit. The first 24 hours of t ...

The Blockchain Is Bigger Than Any Bubble | Bloomberg News Editors

Bitcoin is a poor currency and a crazy investment -- but the technology behind it is a real breakthrough. Nov. 30, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- An influential new recruit has joined the chorus of bitcoin skep ...

The Dark Inevitability of Zionism | Lawrence Davidson

Among the growing assaults on freedom of speech is an Israeli-driven campaign to criminalize a campaign to boycott Israel over its racist persecution of Palestinians, writes Lawrence Davidson. Nov. 2 ...