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Trump, Like Reagan, Exercises Peace-Through-Strength Jan. 10, 2020
Looking and sounding presidential, surrounded by the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Don... Read More
Is Macron Right? Is NATO, 70, Brain Dead? Nov. 26, 2019
A week from now, the 29 member states of "the most successful alliance in history" will meet to cele... Read More
Hong Kong in History's Lens Nov. 13, 2019
How will historians in 2060 frame the 2019 Hong Kong crisis? "The first battle of the Second Cold Wa... Read More
Trump Asks for Trouble in Venezuela Mar. 31, 2019
One of the biggest fiascoes of Barack Obama's presidency occurred when he warned the Syrian governme... Read More
William Barr's Never-Ending War: Trump's Nominee for Attorney General Is Apt to Encourage His Worst Instincts on Drug Policy Dec. 12, 2018
William Barr, Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, believes the president has vast, unilater... Read More
Has Russia Given Up on the West? Sep. 21, 2018
By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an "evil emp... Read More
Once Again, Trump Diplomacy Serves Kremlin Interests May. 09, 2018
The likelihood that Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal for principle... Read More
Time to Get Over the Russophobia Mar. 09, 2018
Unless there is a late surge for Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, who is running second wit... Read More
Why the Left Opposes Arming Teachers Feb. 27, 2018
Why does the left oppose allowing a small number of highly trained teachers and other adults who wor... Read More
Is America Up for a Second Cold War? Nov. 17, 2017
After the 19th national congress of the Chinese Communist Party in October, one may discern Premier ... Read More
Should Japan and South Korea Go Nuclear? Sep. 05, 2017
By setting off a 100-kiloton bomb, after firing a missile over Japan, Kim Jong Un has gotten the wor... Read More
Shall We Fight Them All? Aug. 01, 2017
Saturday, Kim Jong Un tested an ICBM of sufficient range to hit the U.S. mainland. He is now working... Read More
The End of the Cold War and 2017 American Politics Feb. 18, 2017
In 1988, a full year before the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet empire broke up, Georgy Arbatov... Read More
Why Left Opposes Sessions: He's Right; They're Wrong Jan. 11, 2017
Richard Allen, President Ronald Reagan's first national security adviser, once wrote an essay for Hu... Read More
Can Trump and Putin Avert Cold War II? Jan. 03, 2017
In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diploma... Read More
Years After Hiroshima Comes the Blah Jun. 02, 2016
WASHINGTON — I was reading a brilliant biography of former British Prime Minister Margaret Tha... Read More
What Government Can't Do May. 12, 2016
Let's call this the most unsurprising headline of the year so far: "Marriage Increases the Odds of S... Read More
America in Search of a Cause? Oct. 23, 2015
"If the Cold War is over, what's the point of being an American?" said Rabbit Angstrom, the protagon... Read More
Fools, Fascists and Cold Warriors: Take Your Pick Sep. 18, 2015
Are they fools or fascists? Probably the former, but there was a disturbing cast to the second Repub... Read More
A GOP Ultimatum to Vlad Jul. 29, 2014
With the party united, the odds are now at least even that the GOP will not only hold the House but ... Read More
