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My Weekend in Moscow Mar. 13, 2025
When an invitation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the renowned Professor Alexander ... Read More
DeSantis Was Right on Ukraine Mar. 21, 2023
"While the U.S. has many vital national interests ... becoming further entangled in a territorial di... Read More
Winners and Losers From the Ukraine War Aug. 30, 2022
"There never was a good war or a bad peace," wrote Ben Franklin at the end of the American Revolutio... Read More
The Noose Tightens Aug. 25, 2022
WASHINGTON — Back in the days when George H.W. Bush resided in the White House, he told me rat... Read More
Is a US-Russia War Becoming Inevitable? Jul. 15, 2022
At the NATO summit in Madrid, Finland was invited to join the alliance. What does this mean for Finl... Read More
Quo Vadis, Mother Russia? May. 20, 2022
"The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century," said Russ... Read More
How We Got Here: A Brief History of the Ukraine Conflict Mar. 04, 2022
American media outlets characterize Russia's invasion of Ukraine as, variously and concurrently, the... Read More
The Old Normal Gets New Appreciation Mar. 03, 2022
We were out of coffee this morning, so one of us had to do an emergency run to the "corner store." T... Read More
Are Western Democracies Tough Enough for 2022? Mar. 01, 2022
A week ago, they were programmers and teachers, baristas and farmers — and their elected leade... Read More
Has Putin Won Round One in Ukraine? Feb. 18, 2022
When NBC's Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue... Read More
Homage to Ukraine Feb. 10, 2022
Washington — Well, Moscow is in the news again. Russian President Vladimir Putin is irritated ... Read More
Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine Feb. 08, 2022
When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved tr... Read More
Biden's Blindness on Ukraine Fits a US Pattern Dec. 08, 2021
President Joe Biden faces many foreign policy problems, but one involving Equatorial Guinea was not ... Read More
Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will Dec. 07, 2021
Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with "legal guarantees" that Ukraine will never join NATO or bec... Read More
Be Wary of Socialism's Slippery Slope Oct. 28, 2021
For years, progressives mocked anyone who warned that the Democratic Party's move leftward would pro... Read More
US Embraces a Diversity China Fears Aug. 17, 2021
The first returns from the delayed census of 2020 are in, and they have made for celebratory headlin... Read More
Deluge After the Donald? Oct. 17, 2020
Joe Biden enjoys a double-digit lead over incumbent President Donald Trump because he promises a ret... Read More
1989, History's Stubborn Twists and the Commencement Speaker Who Warned Us to Remain Vigilant Oct. 03, 2020
Thirty-one years ago, 1989, the Soviet Empire — the "Evil Empire," as Ronald Reagan liked to c... Read More
Stress Test of a Straining Superpower Jul. 24, 2020
How great a burden can even an unrivaled superpower carry before it buckles and breaks? We may be ab... Read More
The Professor's War Against Truth Jul. 02, 2020
Washington — Here we are, halfway through 2020, and what is the latest finding on the achievem... Read More
