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Trump's Self-Assessment as the GOP's Savior Gets It Exactly Backward Jul. 09, 2019
President Donald Trump is quoted in a new book trashing former President George W. Bush and the late... Read More
Trump Is Dealing With a Mass Murderer Jul. 08, 2019
Few aspects of the Trump administration are as fraught with peril or with promise than President Don... Read More
Crimes Against Humanity on the Border Jun. 27, 2019
There may come a time when top officials of the Trump administration, including the president himsel... Read More
Good News for NATO: Turk Voters Reject Erdogan's Ego-Sultan Regime Jun. 26, 2019
If the Istanbul electoral thrashing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received June 23 eventual... Read More
Trump's Clueless Iran Policy Blunders Toward War Jun. 20, 2019
The Trump administration's unbending policy toward Iran was supposed to force the foe into submissio... Read More
Will the Real Tariff Man Please Stand Down? Jun. 13, 2019
The air always swirls with popular myths that, when repeated constantly, are taken by some to be ind... Read More
Do Trump's Hawks Speak for Trump? Jun. 04, 2019
For a president who won his office by denouncing the Middle East wars into which George W. Bush and ... Read More
Once Again, Trump Is Siding With a U.S. Adversary. What Happened to 'America First'? May. 29, 2019
There's a reason for the wise old admonishment that domestic politics should "stop at the water's ed... Read More
Deter Iran, But Don't Go to War May. 24, 2019
The Islamic Republic of Iran is an enemy of the United States. It poses a constant threat to America... Read More
Trump Courts War with Iran May. 23, 2019
Presidents have always had to deal with unforeseen foreign crises that erupt out of nowhere. For Bil... Read More
Counting the Things Obama Didn't Do May. 22, 2019
WASHINGTON — Let me count the ways, Barack. You did so much right as president, sir, and made... Read More
Iran's Proxy Armies Become a Regime Liability May. 22, 2019
Mark down May 2019 as the month Iran's war-by-proxy-forces racket became an undeniable problem for T... Read More
Kris Kobach Has a Few Demands Before He'll Agree to Be America's Top Xenophobe. May. 22, 2019
Kris Kobach isn't asking much to grant America his services as President Donald Trump's new immigrat... Read More
It's Time for a Course Correction in the Trade War May. 16, 2019
President Donald Trump and his supporters often tell us that he is fundamentally a free trader. The ... Read More
Trump's Fondness for Strongmen Leaders Abroad May. 15, 2019
We the people are preoccupied and landlocked with the Mueller report on the Russia investigation, di... Read More
Congo's Global Epidemic War May. 15, 2019
The Democratic Republic of Congo's daily hell of poverty, assorted wars, ethnic antagonism, frail go... Read More
Don't Be Fooled. Trump's Trade War Translates into a Tax Paid by U.S. Consumers May. 15, 2019
Attention Walmart shoppers: Better stock up now because some big price increases are heading your wa... Read More
For Joe Biden, on China It's Still the 1990s May. 10, 2019
Once upon a time, May 1 — May Day — was a day for working-class parades in factory towns... Read More
The Secret Campaign for 2020: Where the Democratic Candidates Stand on Foreign Policy May. 03, 2019
Americans vote their pocketbooks. It's the economy, stupid. Absent a war or recent terrorist attack,... Read More
The Evolution of Joe Biden May. 02, 2019
In 2007, the economy was humming along in the sixth year of an expansion, with unemployment and infl... Read More
