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What’s happening in Haiti today could prefigure the future of the United States, too, if Donald Trump wins in November and continues to undermine...
With its “war on terrorism,” the United States launched a global campaign against the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks as well as a number of...
Ever since it withdrew its settlements in 2005, Israel has periodically attacked Gaza. This shelling of locations throughout the narrow strip of land...
The head of the U.S. Strategic Command told Congress last week that a powerful set of countries is ganging up against the United States and World War...
Presidential elections in the United States are almost always decided by domestic issues. Once in a while a global concern like terrorism or a...
The best scenario is to achieve some reduction of tensions, some release of hostages, some stepping away from the brink of a wider war.
When Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, it focused on embedding the civil rights of the formerly enslaved in the Constitution. But the...
While Americans are debating esoteric clauses of the Constitution in an effort to determine Trump’s place on or off the ballot, Brazil is taking far...
The Korean War ended more than 70 years ago, and a tense peace has reigned ever since on the Korean peninsula. The two Koreas have exchanged artillery...
It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential...
The EU is still a beacon for progressives around the world, but for how long?
It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential...
The global economy is already undergoing its most fundamental transformation since the Industrial Revolution; if workers and trade unions are at the...
Henry Kissinger wrote his doctoral dissertation about Europe’s “long peace” after the defeat of Napoleon, focusing on how conservative statesmen...
A post-Kissinger realpolitik would acknowledge power politics and the ruthless reality of military force but would nevertheless find ways to assert...
Instead of supporting candidates who promise truly transformational change, voters are backing fast-food populists who advertise options that are even...
Panic does not produce prudent politics. Panic produces provocative populists. And it reduces pundits to Seussian spluttering. How can voters
When a couple doesn’t trust each other, someone has to make a first attempt at reconciliation, however modest.
The United States is the most powerful country on the earth. If you add together its nuclear arsenal, its unmatched array of conventional weaponry,...
Despite the military and non-military assistance it provides to Ukraine and Israel, the United States still can’t determine outcomes on the ground.
The Palestinian people have never really figured prominently in the calculations of U.S. administrations. The Middle East is a locus of power...
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq might have satisfied an immediate desire for revenge, but keeping the guns hot ended up killing more than twice...
The only reason that Trump in a second term might not end up waging war on another country is because he’ll be too focused on destroying his own.
It’s possible that he’ll be in prison. Or perhaps, because of poll numbers that fall as trial dates approach, the Republican Party won’t end up...
In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up some...
The rich cannot be allowed to sit on their billions while the planet burns.
In a fit of foolishness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up...