by Peter Schurman | Jan 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Today we learn via OxFam that just eight men control half the world’s wealth. People are shaking their heads, but what would it take to change this? Nothing on the current policy menu will do the job. As the Panama Papers highlighted last spring, the...
by Peter Schurman | Nov 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Until now, one of the main objections to One Global Democracy has been an assumption that America is better off on its own. Are we? America as we know it is now scheduled to end in 10 weeks, with the inauguration of Donald Trump as President on January 20th. Our...
by Peter Schurman | Sep 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Republicans and Democrats in Washington have just worked together to pass, by veto-proof margins, through both houses of Congress, a bill that would crack open the door to international accountability through the courts. A top elected official in France called it “a...
by Peter Schurman | Jul 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
A high-flying candidate for president’s connections to Russia are becoming increasingly clear: Russian spies appear to have intervened in the US election, and he’s called on them to do it again. Prominent columnists on both the right and the left have...
by Peter Schurman | Jun 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Brexit is such an awful mess it’s hard to know where to begin. It may mark the beginning of the end of the EU, which until recently has stood as our strongest example of humanity’s potential to transcend the intrinsic pettiness of national borders....