Publications: Commentary

The American West is once again on fire or covered with heavy smoke from numerous blazes. Through mid-July of this year, there have been over 34,000 fires in the U.S. compared with about 28,000 at the same juncture last year. The causes – multi-year drought, undersized winter snowpack, unusually high temperatures causing early runoff, and…

The dysfunction that defines Washington, D.C. is facing a pressing test. Political leaders must get serious and get it right on two critical fronts – managing the competition from China and the threat from climate change. The choices made this year on both of these issues will have repercussions for coming decades. The Senate and House…

The U.S. along with its G-7 and NATO allies painted a bullseye on China and Russia as major threats to democracy and global stability during back-to-back summit meetings. But, delivering on President Biden’s commitment that, “the responsibility of our proud democracies [is] to step up and deliver to the rest of the world,” will be…

The ice finally has broken in the two-year-plus civil nuclear Cold War between the U.S. and South Korea. In a joint statement from the summit between Presidents Biden and Moon, the countries committed to “develop cooperation in overseas nuclear markets, including joint participation in nuclear power plant projects.” The leaders went further in the fact…