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Trump's Ukraine: 'I Am on Humanity's Side' Jul. 16, 2025
On July 15, according to X (formerly Twitter), a reporter on the White House lawn asked, "Are you on... Read More
The Question for Donald Trump Jun. 21, 2025
To bomb or not to bomb. That is the question. And the answer is: he'll decide "within the next two w... Read More
Pigsty: The World Watches the White House Turned to Trash Mar. 04, 2025
"My heart has always been truly convinced," Marquis de Lafayette declared 250 years ago, "that in se... Read More
Trump Tells Zelenskyy He's Gambling on World War III Mar. 04, 2025
WASHINGTON — This column is about how Washington and Kyiv got to that moment Friday when Presi... Read More
Greenland: The USA's Next East Coast? Jan. 08, 2025
Donald Trump's media genius strikes again, this time calling national and international attention to... Read More
Pray Trump 2 Gets the Abraham Accords Back On Track Nov. 06, 2024
The first Trump administration gave the world the Nobel Prize-worthy Abraham Accords, an extraordina... Read More
Memento Mori Dec. 01, 2023
Charlie Munger and Henry Kissinger are dead. Munger died 34 days before his 100th year. Kissinger cr... Read More
Lies, Damned Lies, and Ukraine Jul. 12, 2023
As the Russian war in Ukraine drags on, three phrases have become a constant political drumbeat: "fi... Read More
Joe Biden Threatens To 'Finish the Job' Apr. 26, 2023
This week, President Joe Biden formally launched his 2024 reelection campaign. He did so with a thre... Read More
Unjaded: Celebrating the Irish, Joe Biden Celebrates America Apr. 18, 2023
The late Irish poet Eavan Boland paid famous homage to the daughters and sons of Ireland who, beginn... Read More
At The Ramparts: Under Siege from Autocrats and Crooks, Fighters for Democracy Hang Tough Mar. 28, 2023
The fight to preserve democracy around the world has come to resemble Whac-A-Mole, with autocrats wi... Read More
Reality Beckons Mar. 03, 2023
An out-of-context video featuring Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, quoted him claiming Amer... Read More
Thinking Hard About Ukraine War and Peace: One Year Out Mar. 01, 2023
WASHINGTON — "Slava Ukraini" is heard in the halls and streets here, especially when President... Read More
World War III in 2023 Feb. 25, 2023
It's any given morning on any given week in 2023. Millions of Americans wake up without internet: no... Read More
Ukraine's Nation in Arms: The Unexpected Near-Peer War Feb. 01, 2023
Russia versus Ukraine: It's an unexpected "near-peer" war. Eleven months of combat and suffering de... Read More
A Column of the 'Not So Urgent' Sort: Shifts in Political Economy Terminology, Part I Dec. 31, 2022
I am often asked how I come up with topics for my columns, one every week. It wasn't easy at first, ... Read More
60th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis Finds Communist Island in Deepest Crisis Ever, Part II Oct. 15, 2022
During and in the aftermath of the historic mass protests of July 11-14, 2021, the Cuban regime unle... Read More
60th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis Finds Communist Island in Deepest Crisis Ever, Part I Oct. 08, 2022
Sixty years ago, on Oct. 22, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on TV with dire warnings... Read More
A World at Risk Sep. 24, 2022
The world faces the possibility of a Third World War, a worst-case scenario that could destroy the e... Read More
Putin's Dirty War, Geopolitical Adjustments and Prospects for Future Wars, Part IV Aug. 27, 2022
U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS If we think of the 1970s U.S.-China rapprochement as a video, it began to play ... Read More
