Joseph Gerson

Despite our differences with China—some of them profound—we would do well to prioritize pursuing mutually beneficial diplomacy and building collaborations to address the existential threats to survival over preparing for catastrophic war with the Middle Kingdom.

The existential truth is that the U.S. and China are caught in the Thucydides Trap, the historic pattern of inevitable tension between rising and declining powers that have too often climaxed in catastrophic war.

"Human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist."

There remain 13 potentially dangerous days before Biden is inaugurated.

Pressing for peaceful resolution of U.S.-China tensions in ways that provide mutual benefit for both sides and other Asia-Pacific nations needs to become a peace movement priority.

The preservation of constitutional democracy in the United States could depend on our preparing for a possible—if very unlikely—October Surprise.

The pandemic teaches that we are a single interdependent species, and that militarism and xenophobic policies threaten our security and survival.

Instead of initiating a war with the assassination of General Soleimani, rationale leaders would have pursued diplomacy to reverse the spiraling dynamic of military escalation, not thoughtlessly and murderously fueling it.