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Trump Is Flunking His Most Important Course: 'America 101' Aug. 21, 2025
SAN DIEGO — Think of the valuable lessons we learned as children. Be kind. Think of others. ... Read More
Can a NATO 'Article 5-Like' Promise Protect Ukraine From Putin? Aug. 20, 2025
In November 2022, I wrote an essay titled "Peace With Vladimir Putin Is A Delusion." Three years of ... Read More
Sub-Zero: Alaska Coffee Klatch Nets Nothing for Ukraine, Plenty for Putin Aug. 19, 2025
Departing Alaska after a mega-hyped meeting with Vladimir Putin that gave the Russian dictator plent... Read More
Hiroshima's Cloud and the Ukraine Ceasefire Deadline Aug. 06, 2025
The 80th anniversaries of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide an instructive m... Read More
Putin's Aug. 9 Deadline: Economic Nagasaki? Jul. 30, 2025
On Monday, July 28, during a trip to Britain, President Donald Trump dramatically reduced the time R... Read More
Russia: The Vulnerable Sick Man of Eurasia Jul. 09, 2025
Popular history credits Russian Czar Nicholas I with describing 19th-century Ottoman Turkey as "The ... Read More
No Defense for the Indefensible -- but Trump Team Tries Anyway Jul. 09, 2025
President Donald Trump and his acolytes need to learn that the days of falsely blaming the deep stat... Read More
Attention Disorder: America Sleeps as Trump Hands Putin What He Wants Jul. 08, 2025
The late Charlie Munger, who with longtime friend Warren Buffett turned Berkshire Hathaway into a be... 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
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
The Donald Trump Revenge Tour Is Underway May. 14, 2025
On April 23, 1992, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Kiss started its Revenge Tour in San Francisc... Read More
What Does Russia Want? Apr. 30, 2025
Russia's war to conquer Ukraine has been raging since February 2022. At first, the Russian offensive... Read More
Don't Make Ukraine Another Vietnam Apr. 28, 2025
Fifty years ago on April 30, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and the defeat was America's, too.... Read More
Ukraine War: The Peace Ball Is Now in Putin's Court Mar. 12, 2025
Late on March 11, the Trump administration announced Ukraine had agreed to a 30-day ceasefire in the... Read More
Once Again, Trump Confirms Putin as His BFF Mar. 05, 2025
What's more irritating than a columnist saying I told you so? Forgive me, but I just looked over a f... 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 Failed Ukraine, the Cause of Freedom and the American People Mar. 04, 2025
SAN DIEGO — It's too bad the Academy Awards are over with. President Donald Trump would be a s... Read More
Russia Is Bad, Actually Feb. 25, 2025
One of the biggest problems with politics — a problem that makes it impossible to have any sub... Read More
America Joins the Jackals Feb. 21, 2025
As I watched election returns on the evening of Nov. 5, 2024, I was struck by the sense that America... Read More
A Web of Disinformation Feb. 20, 2025
"You should have never started it," President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, accusing Ukrainian leade... Read More
