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In Trump's Service, Musk Goes After USAID. Is That Weird? Feb. 14, 2025
WASHINGTON — "My uncle started USAID in 1961, for humanitarian purposes, to put our country on... Read More
The Message Biden Should Have Sent to China Aug. 28, 2024
When an unnamed "senior administration official" briefed reporters last Friday about National Securi... Read More
Blinken Meets With Genocide Perpetrator May. 01, 2024
When Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference last week to announce that the State ... Read More
GOP Right To Deny Ilhan Omar a Committee Seat Feb. 03, 2023
Poor Ilhan Omar has been denied a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "I certainly did not ... Read More
The Enemy Is Fragility: Pompeo's New Strategy Dec. 24, 2020
Planet Earth, for worse and occasionally better, is a world of neighborhood existence — many n... Read More
The Enemy Is Fragility: Pompeo's New Strategy Dec. 23, 2020
Planet Earth, for worse and occasionally better, is a world of neighborhood existence — many n... Read More
Talk Versus Action Sep. 10, 2020
With less than two months left before the presidential election, polls in the swing states are tight... Read More
What's Behind Our World on Fire? Nov. 19, 2019
When the wildfires of California broke out across the Golden State, many were the causes given. Negl... Read More
America's Individual-Sanctions Weapon: Economic and Diplomatic Warfare Power With an Information Edge Oct. 16, 2019
With the goals of halting human rights abuse and deterring corruption, the U.S. Treasury Department ... Read More
Trade War a Weapon Against China's Spy War Sep. 11, 2019
In May, I wrote a column arguing China's pervasive spying and influence operation in America has no ... Read More
Pelosi Acts to Undo Trump on the World Stage Apr. 24, 2019
While Washington mulled over the Mueller report, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was seeing the world. Sh... Read More
Trump's Impulsiveness on North Korea Sows Chaos, Confusion and Danger. Mar. 29, 2019
President Donald Trump's impulsive and chaotic approach to foreign policy was again on display last ... 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
Is US Bellicosity Backfiring? May. 25, 2018
U.S. threats to crush Iran and North Korea may yet work, but as of now neither Tehran nor Pyongyang ... Read More
Too Many Wars. Too Many Enemies. Jan. 30, 2018
If Turkey is not bluffing, U.S. troops in Manbij, Syria, could be under fire by week's end, and NATO... Read More
Red Lines & Lost Credibility Nov. 07, 2017
A major goal of this Asia trip, said National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, is to rally allies to... Read More
Trumping Your Social Security -- Getting Social Security Benefits Overseas Dec. 14, 2016
Ever since the presidential election, I've probably received 50 emails from readers asking me what w... Read More
3 Myths About Thomas Jefferson Apr. 15, 2014
This week holds some critical dates. April 15 haunts most Americans as a tax deadline. April 18 and ... Read More
