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David RothkopfChicago Tribune |
There are many creatures in the animal kingdom—from weasels to spotted skunks to ostriches—that perform a dance to intimidate their enemies. This...
Iran launched an attack on Israel Saturday that was apparently designed by Iran to be both dramatic and ineffective. It was dramatic, because in the...
Donald Trump, over the past few weeks, has grown more vocal about what his foreign policy would look like in a second administration. You might even...
Outrage and indignation from the President of the United States and his aides, no matter how great, no matter how many times expressed or leaked to...
Within 24 hours, two Israeli strikes occurred on targets that could not be more different. Both however, have the possibility of dramatically altering...
Bernard Schwartz was the last person in my life to regularly refer to me as “kid.” When in the course of our many collaborations over the past two...
Benjamin Netanyahu has brought the U.S.-Israel relationship to the breaking point. The tensions between the Biden administration and Netanyahu’s...
Within a 24-hour period, the 2024 presidential campaign kicked off in a way that could not present the choice before the American public more starkly....
While the Biden administration is extremely disciplined in terms of the foreign policy messages delivered by the president and the various members of...
The clock is ticking. The Biden administration has gone all-in on its efforts to bring the fighting in Gaza to a halt. The increasingly emphatic U.S....
I don’t think most Americans realize how close we are to losing everything we most value about our system of government. It is not just that the...
This week, U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrated yet again why theirs is the foreign policy world’s...
We are dramatically understating the threat Donald Trump and the MAGA movement pose to the security of the United States, Europe and the world. It is...
Democrats are in need of a reality check. The stakes are too high for us to indulge in the kind of denial, self-deception, and illusions that are a...
Don’t let the incompetence of the Republican Party distract you from the profound damage they are doing to our country. The MAGA movement may be bad...
It is inevitable that much of the discussion in Washington, D.C. regarding the drone attack on a small U.S. military base on the Jordanian-Syrian...
MAGA Republican immigration policy is no longer just a series of cynical, cruel, ill-considered, half-baked, ham-fisted, pig-headed political stunts,...
If you want to debate the merits of whether using the phrase “from the river to the sea” is genocidal now that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin...
For many Americans, hearing that the United States had engaged in a military action like Friday morning’s joint strikes with the British against the...
It has been three years since Jan. 6 and we still do not know how the coup attempt turned out. While the insurrection that was orchestrated by...
The relationship between the Biden administration and the Netanyahu government in Israel has nearly reached the breaking point. It is highly...
The damage has been done. The message has been sent. Russia’s fifth column, also known as the MAGA Republicans, have placed a giant question mark...
Hate speech is a scourge. Combatting it is an important goal of any society. Speech that incites violence or creates a threatening environment cannot...
Since the onset of the current war in Gaza, as an integral part of the small inner circle of senior administration officials guiding the U.S....
Henry Kissinger was the celebrity statesman of the century in which he lived. That was his doing as much as it was the consequence of the media age in...
The close Israeli ally with which America once shared key values no longer exists. The Israel to whose defense Joe Biden immediately stepped up on...
Despite the Netherlands’ reputation as one of the world’s leading liberal societies, the holiday season in that country has long been a time when...
Had Donald Trump been the U.S. president hosting this week’s APEC meetings, I have no doubt that the headline from the event would have been...
That sound you hear, which sounds suspiciously like jackboots, is the Republican Party marching out of the closet and proclaiming its opposition to...
A reckoning is coming for the Biden’s administration’s partnership with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government in Israel. While the...
The most dangerous movement in American politics today is not Trumpism. It is Christofascism. With the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker...
President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel was a gamble. With it, he became the first U.S. president to travel to that country while it was at war....
The crisis triggered by Hamas’ savage attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 is at a very delicate stage. As Gaza awaits a full-scale Israeli invasion, Iran...
Standing by Israel in the wake of this past weekend’s horrific attacks was the right thing for the Biden administration to do. Hamas committed...
The sudden and massive attack unleashed by Hamas against Israel on Saturday, has its roots in a long history of conflict. It may seem to echo past...
There have been MAGA true believers shitting on the floor of the Congress ever since Jan. 6, 2021. But the right wing’s active desecration of the...
Had the great Maya Angelou been alive to witness Saturday’s climax of the omnishambolic dog’s breakfast of a misbegotten legislative process that...
Donald Trump lost his damn mind this weekend. Or to be more accurate, he revealed more clearly than usual the madman wannabe dictator that lurks...
For one week each year, as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly meetings, the biggest stories in international...
What if the media appetite for flash, big personalities, and buzzy stories had exactly nothing to do with governing? It is not a new phenomenon. The...