Author: James Chamberlin

A New York Times editorial described the ways in which President Trump has behaved corruptly in office: The self-enrichment of the second Trump administration is different from old-fashioned corruption. There is no evidence that Mr. Trump has received direct bribes, nor is it clear that he has agreed to specific…

According to the Wall Street Journal, three years is not enough time to build Trump’s Golden Dome to protect the US.

As I was finishing my tour as the deputy director of the State Department’s “green” environmental office – responsible for living things like forests, animals, and humans – the office across the hall that was responsible for supporting foreign service science officers in the field asked if I would accept…

The Eonomist reports that in 2024 deforestation increased in the Amazon. A new contributor was fires caused by climate change drought, in addition to the old problem of illegal land clearing for farming and ranching. The article says: Climate change is raising temperatures and drying the air, turning the rainforest…

n the New York Review of Books, Christopher Brown writes about what a “Manchurian Candidate” would do if elected, and it turns out to almlst exactly what Donald Trump has been doing. He says: Imagine that the president of the United States was a “Manchurian candidate,” an embedded foreign agent determined to…

I am disappointed in Bill Maher’s readout of his dinner with President Trump. Maher found Trump charming and gracious, with no name calling or epithets. My theory is that Trump could do this because he won, and Maher lost.  Unspoken but underlying the conversation was Trump’s view that I kicked…

In the course of a general talk I said that the first preoccupation must be to prevent further aggression in the future by Germany or Japan. To this end I contemplated an association of the United States, Great Britain, and Russia. If the United States wished to include China in…

Early the following morning I lay in bed in my saloon on the train composing, in the light of the general discussion which had taken place, a note on my views on post-war security. I called this paper “Morning Thoughts”. One paragraph is possibly worthy of preservation in the light…

Wired magazine reports on how soon it will be before quantum computers are able to crack all the encryption we are using tody. It says: One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking…