# Trump : Dolly, election fears and J.D. discovering Huey Long
Two journalists from Geneva, Philippe Mottaz (very old friend), and Stéphane Bussard (Le Temps) are writing a running commentary on the Trump presidency in the form of a letter exchange. They have invited me to join. I write in English, they translate into French. My...
‘Don’t follow our lead, a sane US energy policy is on the horizon”
In the past ten years there was a lot of talk about the „green new deal“, meaning the transitioning from a fossil-based to a carbon-free economy, and President Joe Biden was able to get congressional approval for a slimmed-down version. This is history. The „green new deal” only lives on as a foil for right-wing ridicule. I asked James van Nostrand why that is and what’s in store. Van Nostrand is the Policy Director at the Future of Heat Initiative, a nonprofit organization working on energy affordability issues, and the author of «The Coal Trap: How West Virginia was left behind in the clean energy revolution.” He is based in Philadelphia.
“You may see a strange coalition of countries”
The second half of Switzerland's chairpersonship of OSCE, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, has begun. OSCE expert Walter Kemp, a Canadian based in Vienna, assesses the state of play. He does not exclude that the prospect of a military conflict...
Africa on the map
Football – the world sport, not the American exception – and politics go forever together: Switzerland’s victory against Grossdeutschland on Jun 9, 1938, rang a bell of resistance. Germany’s World Cup championship on July 4, 1954, was the spiritual birth of the...