GORLICK: The greatest problem facing our world

The greatest problem facing our world is not mass hunger or poverty. It is not climate change or racism or prejudice or war or terrorism. It is one, six letter word, more influential and leveling than all of these factors combined. It possesses profound destructive power, but its remedy could fundamentally change the trajectory of our world.

GORLICK: Demystifying the Trump-witch paradox

It is within this era-specific political rhetoric and culture that we find one of Donald Trump’s recurring outcries: the world is a witch hunt, all political opponents are enemies and accusers and — most significantly — he, Donald Trump, is the one true and tragic witch.