President Donald Trump entered office saying that he wanted a better relationship with Russia. Instead, the two governments edged closer to conflict. The administration increased sanctions on Moscow, expelled Russian diplomats, expanded military assistance to Ukraine,...
Review of Bringing The Enemy’s War Home; The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai I was born near New York City in 1973, the year the United States officially ended its war in Vietnam and brought home the last of its combat troops. The Vietnam War, known to the...
I will begin with the necessary preventions. I am not an epidemiologist nor do I have any medical expertise. I have, however, spend a great deal of time over the years looking at how deployment of information affects the making of public policy. It is in this vein...
Everyone has heard, ad nauseam, about the "Special Relationship" between the United States and Britain. Accordingly, the few Americans who dare identify their country as an empire – past or present – tend to analogize with the British model. While the...
“The costs of the pandemic keep piling up,” writes Marc Thiessen at the Washington Post. “Somebody has to pay for this unprecedented damage. That somebody should be the government of China.” And why, pray tell, should China’s government...
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads to India, Indian-administered Kashmir – home to 7 million people and under lockdown by the Indian government – is already experiencing among the highest density of cases of any area in the country. In Kashmir, the...
Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story. Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted through saliva droplets, Israeli soldiers and illegal Jewish settlers are working...
For declaring in March that the U.S. economy might be reopened by Easter, President Donald Trump was roundly mocked. Yet, it appears his political instincts were correct. He was more in tune with his country than were his critics. By early Easter week, Gov. Andrew...
