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Russia is trying to accomplish in a sham process what it can't achieve on the battlefield, which is to conquer eastern Ukraine. In Kremlin-engineered…
3 years, 6 months ago
What the U.N. Cannot Do
By design the United Nations cannot stop the war in Ukraine. The world body chartered in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation has a decidedly mixed …
3 years, 6 months ago
The 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago
Peter Bergen on 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, 7 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, 7 months ago