ARTICLES – In the Human Interest – Mel Gurtov

A Few Suggested New Readings

5 Aug 20195 Aug 2019

Video: A Moving Cry for Change in Gun Laws: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/08/04/relative-of-victims-message-to-trump-dayton-ohio-mass-shooting-nr-vpx.cnn My friend and Asia scholar Mark Selden teamed up to write the following on “The Dangerous New US Consensus on…

“Unpacking a US Decision to Engage North Korea”

16 Apr 201826 Jun 2018

A special report of 38 North, co-authored with Carla Freeman and available at https://www.38north.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/38-North-SR-1804_Freeman-Gurtov.pdf From the report: "Understanding what North Korea really wants is essential because hope that progress toward denuclearization…

US POLITICS: Michael Marien, The Trexit Scenarios: Possibilities for Trump Exit and Beyond

31 Jul 20171 Aug 2017

(ABSTRACT - July 31, 2017) Many observers in 2016 warned that Donald Trump was unfit for the White House. After half a year in office, many more unhappy observers…

Ending nuclear lawlessness

Zia Mian and M.V. Ramama April 13, 2017 In the last week of March, at the United Nations in New York, history was made as diplomats from about 130 countries…

HUMOR

18 Feb 201724 Apr 2017

John Oliver takes apart Ivanka and Jared (20 min. video): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/apr/24/john-oliver-ivanka-jared-trump-last-week-tonight A picturebook on Jared Kushner's trip to Iraq in April 2017: http://taskandpurpose.com/jared-kushner-iraq-storybook-pictures/ "Impeachara," a very funny take on Trumpian bad…

FUTURES

18 Feb 201731 Oct 2018

"One Billion Dollars for the Planet" (Oct. 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/opinion/earth-biodiversity-conservation-billion-dollars.html. A philanthropist makes a major pledge for conservation. "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice" (Nov. 2017), https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/12/1026/4605229#main. Over 15,000…

US POLITICS:

17 Feb 201723 May 2017

"RussiaGate: A Debacle From Which the Trump Presidency Will Not Recover": Douglas Blackmon, http://billmoyers.com/story/trump-russia-scandal-investigation/ Anti-Semitism, and anti-people, in and around the Trump administration: Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/opinion/sunday/why-is-this-hate-different-from-all-other-hate.html Trump’s…

RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL ACTIVISM:

17 Feb 201719 Jun 2017

Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian: "Victories Against Trump are Mounting," https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/18/resistance-victories-trump-mounting-final-blow Masha Gessen, NY Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/ Peter Dreier, “Mourn, Then Organize”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/mourn-then-organize_b_12878660.html www.Billmoyers.com www.realclearpolitics.com/2017/01/11/the_first_100_days_resistance_agenda_399688.html “Indivisible: A…

FOREIGN POLICY:

17 Feb 201710 Apr 2018

"The Desperation of Our Diplomats": Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/opinion/sunday/trump-tillerson-state-department-diplomats.html. A devastating critique of Trump's and Tillerson's evisceration of the State Department. "Russiagate": Evan Osnos et al., http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-and-the-new-cold-war. The most important article to…