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Senate Rebuke of Trump Dec. 14, 2018
In what may be the most stunning rebuke to date of the Trump presidency, the Senate voted Thursday &... Read More
The Growing Republican Resistance to Trump Dec. 06, 2018
Congressional Republicans were once noted for their defiance of the executive branch, mobilizing reg... Read More
Are the Saudi Princes True Friends? Nov. 22, 2018
The 633-word statement of President Donald Trump on the Saudi royals' role in the grisly murder of W... Read More
Saudi Arabia, Supposed Bulwark Against Extremism, Embraces Murderous Thuggery Oct. 24, 2018
The Saudi government's response to the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi would be ... Read More
Time for Trump to Cut the Prince Loose? Oct. 23, 2018
Was the assassination of JFK by Lee Harvey Oswald still getting as much media coverage three weeks a... Read More
The Saudi Challenge Oct. 19, 2018
Jamal Khashoggi's murder — and no one now questions whether the Washington Post contributor wa... Read More
The Khashoggi Response Should Be Limited Oct. 19, 2018
Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist turned dissident. He fled Saudi Arabia in 2017 and took up re... Read More
Falling for a Saudi Prince's Charming Spell Oct. 17, 2018
WASHINGTON — The grand romance with the crown prince is over, with blood spilled at the Saudi ... Read More
Khashoggi's Demise Reveals Unpleasant Truths Oct. 17, 2018
The apparent murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist a... Read More
Should US-Saudi Alliance Be Saved? Oct. 16, 2018
Over the weekend Donald Trump warned of "severe punishment" if an investigation concludes that a Sau... Read More
With the Saudis, Trump Shows Timidity Oct. 14, 2018
If a foreign journalist living in America and writing about the Iranian government's noxious policie... Read More
Enemy of the People Oct. 12, 2018
When President Donald Trump called the press the "enemy of the people," he wasn't only speaking to h... Read More
With Friends Like These Oct. 12, 2018
Was Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and t... Read More
Why Do We Care About Jamal Khashoggi? Oct. 12, 2018
He had an appointment at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to collect some documents he needed to marr... Read More
A Barbaric Price for Protest Aug. 30, 2018
Saudi Arabia's glossy blueprint for modernization, Vision 2030, pledges that the regime will "listen... Read More
The Saudi-Canada Clash: A Values War Aug. 10, 2018
Is it any of Canada's business whether Saudi women have the right to drive? Well, Foreign Minister ... Read More
Goodbye, OPEC May. 01, 2018
I have argued many times on these pages and elsewhere that the shale oil and gas revolution is the s... Read More
Trump's Saudi Policy Gamble Apr. 27, 2018
Seventy-three years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on his trip back from the Yalta conference with Wins... Read More
Trump's Brazen Hypocrisy on Human Rights in Iran Jan. 07, 2018
As protesters march in Iran, the U.S. government has emerged as a brave champion of human rights. "T... Read More
The US-Saudi Starvation Blockade Nov. 24, 2017
Our aim is to "starve the whole population — men, women, and children, old and young, wounded ... Read More
