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Trump and I Both Tell Lies for a Living May. 17, 2023
I tell lies for a living. Well, what do you expect? I write fiction. No one calls me out when my nov... Read More
How to Stop Lies Begetting Lies Apr. 28, 2023
Lies beget lies. That's one way to summarize nearly the past decade of presidential politics, as wel... Read More
Fighting Putin for Empire Apr. 27, 2023
The empire-building debacle of the nearly 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan is a lesson unl... Read More
The Pentagon Papers, Again Apr. 13, 2023
Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? Can the government morally steal d... Read More
Joe Biden Stands at a Pivotal Moment in His Presidency Mar. 23, 2023
Every president wields a certain level of power. Irrespective of their party affiliation, their back... Read More
Questioning Biden's Ukraine Policy Doesn't Make You an 'Isolationist' Mar. 03, 2023
It's not exactly a sign of a healthy democratic discourse that it's virtually impossible to ask a cr... Read More
Reality Beckons Mar. 03, 2023
An out-of-context video featuring Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, quoted him claiming Amer... Read More
Ukraine's Combined Arms Warfare Edge Mar. 01, 2023
March 2022's Ukraine war videos of exploding Russian tanks showed the world that Ukrainian soldiers ... Read More
Shuffling, Stumbling, Mumbling into War Feb. 28, 2023
The long, sad history of war is replete with multiple mistakes, misjudgments, erroneous information ... Read More
World War III in 2023 Feb. 25, 2023
It's any given morning on any given week in 2023. Millions of Americans wake up without internet: no... Read More
War and the Constitution Feb. 23, 2023
Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitut... Read More
James Clapper Can't Stop Lying Feb. 17, 2023
In an interview with The Washington Post's "fact-checker," former Director of National Intelligence ... Read More
The Ukraine Trap, One Year Later Feb. 10, 2023
Though their number is steadily dropping, especially among Republicans, most Americans support Ukrai... Read More
Watching Ukraine, Japan and South Korea Consider Nuclear Weapons Feb. 08, 2023
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has stirred profound defense policy changes in Europe and Asia, with on... Read More
Bring On the Tanks Feb. 02, 2023
WASHINGTON — I have been following the pledging of combat tanks to Ukraine by the European all... Read More
Ukraine's Nation in Arms: The Unexpected Near-Peer War Feb. 01, 2023
Russia versus Ukraine: It's an unexpected "near-peer" war. Eleven months of combat and suffering de... Read More
Ukraine Demonstrates War Reserve Stockpiles Are Vital Jan. 25, 2023
No matter the outcome on the battlefield, the Ukraine War already has a clear winner: that small ban... Read More
Time for Truth and Reconciliation on the Russia Collusion Hoax Jan. 20, 2023
What are "the major problems this country faces"? Writing in The Atlantic, New York Times columnist ... Read More
2023's Strategic Challenges: Introducing Big Debt Jan. 04, 2023
When 2022 began, Vladimir Putin's Russia was fighting a slow but deadly war with Ukraine — a w... Read More
A Column of the 'Not So Urgent' Sort: Shifts in Political Economy Terminology, Part I Dec. 31, 2022
I am often asked how I come up with topics for my columns, one every week. It wasn't easy at first, ... Read More
