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Back to SearchThe Queen's Empire
The death of Queen Elizabeth II provoked in her home country an outpouring of grief and pride while in other parts of the world – the independent nat…
3 years, 8 months ago
Semi-fascism?
President Biden told supporters at a reception for the Democratic National Committee that Donald Trump and his loyalists within the GOP -- "MAGA Repu…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Carter Comparison
Inflation, high gas prices, foreign policy failures, and the deep mistrust of leadership by American citizens -- these problems and more dogged Presi…
3 years, 8 months ago
Resurrecting John Brown: When Is Violence Justified?
Americans not only expect more political violence. Polls show that a growing number of Americans, though still a minority, believe violence against t…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Man Who Ended Communism
When Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30, obituaries and remembrances lauded his legacy of reform that ended Communism and the peaceful means that al…
3 years, 8 months ago
Taliban Redux
It's been said that history does not repeat but it does rhyme. A generation after seizing power for the first time in an Afghanistan destroyed by war…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ayman al-Zawahiri and Future of al-Qaeda
The man who succeeded Osama bin Laden at the top of al-Qaeda, the Egyptian jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, was not a driving force or key planner in the …
3 years, 9 months ago
The Espionage Act
The FBI investigation into possible Espionage Act violations by former president Donald J. Trump for keeping top-secret documents at his Florida reso…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ex-Presidents
Unprecedented may be the most overused word in political discourse, but it applies to the post-presidency of Donald J. Trump. More than a year and a …
3 years, 9 months ago
Why War Doesn't Work
As Russia prepared in the opening weeks of 2022 to invade its neighbor, many observers expected a quick victory. Russia's modernized army vastly outn…
3 years, 9 months ago