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Hello, World! America Doesn't Have Your Back Anymore Jul. 03, 2025
America has your back. That has been the message of U.S. foreign policy to the world's vulnerable si... Read More
Iranian Regime Remains No Friend to Peace in Middle East Jun. 25, 2025
The proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" goes back to Roman times. But being repeated throug... Read More
Trump's Ceasefire Between Israel and Iran Is A Castle Built on Sand Jun. 24, 2025
SAN DIEGO — So much for the big, beautiful ceasefire. It turns out neither Israel nor Iran was... Read More
Russian and Iranian Threats Dim in Summer Brightness Jun. 18, 2025
Way back in 1919, the poet William Butler Yeats wrote of a time when the "centre cannot hold," and "... Read More
China Comes for the Caribbean Jun. 19, 2023
When Americans think about conflict with China, Taiwan comes to mind first. Yet there's a front off... Read More
Olympic Games, Truces and Wars (Sochi, 2014; Beijing, 2022) Feb. 26, 2022
Since 2019, I have been working on a collection of opinion columns under the title "All History Is C... Read More
Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Spectacles of National Branding and Global Projection, Part I Feb. 05, 2022
Sometimes I wish, if just for a moment, that I could simply enjoy what I see and hear around me: a p... Read More
What Impeachment Is Really About Nov. 15, 2019
This week, nearly two months after beginning impeachment proceedings, the Democrats finally held the... Read More
The King of Debt Nov. 14, 2019
When President Barack Obama nearly doubled the national debt, raising it by almost $9 trillion durin... Read More
Nancy Pelosi's Stall Tactics Hurt America's Economy Nov. 05, 2019
Wouldn't it be wonderful if for one brief shining moment in Washington, Congress put good policy ove... Read More
Trump Right to Mark the Death of al-Baghdadi as a Victory Nov. 05, 2019
One mark of how far we have fallen into the politics of division is the blowback the White House has... Read More
The Killing of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi: Illegal, Disgusting and Degenerate Nov. 02, 2019
As a society degenerates, life cheapens. The rhetoric that follows death coarsens. Respect paid to f... Read More
An 'Austere Religious Scholar' Exemplifies Fake News Nov. 01, 2019
This week's death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi marked a monumental victory for mankind. We el... Read More
Trump Keeps Doing Favors for Putin Oct. 27, 2019
Under fire from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, Donald Trump bitterly abandoned his plan... Read More
The State Department's War on Trump Oct. 23, 2019
House Democrats are grilling a stream of disgruntled career diplomats in a basement hearing room of ... Read More
Psychoanalysts' 2017 Warnings About Trump Are Proving Eerily Accurate Oct. 21, 2019
Shortly after President Donald Trump's inauguration, 800 psychoanalysts from across the country join... Read More
The Danger in Trump's Syria Policy Oct. 20, 2019
I think it was last Thanksgiving that a bright young family member told me about his fear that Presi... Read More
LeBron James Is a Coward Oct. 18, 2019
NBA superstar LeBron James says Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey was "misinformed" and "w... Read More
NBA Double Dribbles on Hong Kong Oct. 17, 2019
In its weekly "Gigs and Garlands" editorial, the News Herald's sister paper, The Ledger of Lakeland,... Read More
Why Does Donald Trump Keep Empowering America's Biggest Enemies? Oct. 17, 2019
Until President Donald Trump's rash decision last week to withdraw hundreds of U.S. troops from thei... Read More
