Month: May 2025

The Washington Post reports that as part of its attack on European countries for their democratic institutions, the State Department is revising its human rights reports to be more critical of leftist views. I think I wrote the first human rights report on Brazil while I was working on the…

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…

In 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…