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The Cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome? Success! Aug. 21, 2025
At this point in his second term, President Donald Trump has higher approval ratings than Presidents... Read More
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
Trump Is Right to Keep Ukraine Out of NATO Aug. 20, 2025
After he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and before he met with Ukrainian Presid... 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
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
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
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
We Support Ukraine. Shouldn't We Be Supporting Iran? Jun. 20, 2025
In "1984," one of George Orwell's characters explains that "doublethink means the power of holding t... Read More
Trump, War and the Constitution Jun. 19, 2025
Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight... 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
Top 10 Worst Things Trump Has Done in His Second Term Jun. 05, 2025
SAN DIEGO — If presidencies were akin to attractions at Disneyland, President Donald Trump's s... Read More
New Model Trojan Horse: Ukraine's Drones Jun. 04, 2025
Bravo to Ukraine for its "New Model Trojan Horse." Homer's Greek warriors slipped from a wooden hors... Read More
Dealing Don and Bad Vlad Head for a Showdown May. 28, 2025
What does Russian dictator Vladimir Putin value? My question's immediate frame of reference: Donald ... 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
