Let’s try to make this simple: The basic rationale behind charges that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help candidate Donald Trump rests, of course, on the assumption that Moscow preferred Trump to Hillary Clinton. But that is...
Mass Grave Found Near Kirkuk; 29 Killed in Iraq
Militiaman Shoots P.M.’s Security Officer; 32 Killed in Iraq
Cold Warriors Becoming Overheated Over Trolls
In a Wall Street Journal column called "The Clear and Present Danger of Trump," former Clinton adviser William Galston of the Brookings Institution recently proclaimed, "It is time for the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, and the national...
Scattered ISIS Attacks near Kirkuk; 54 Killed in Iraq
NBC’s Clueless Boost for Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s team swept a doubleheader on March 1, with his mid-day speech claiming strategic parity with the U.S., and then the nightcap duel with NBC’s Megyn Kelly. Any lingering doubt that Putin is a shoo-in for another term as President is...
Trump’s Spur of the Moment ‘Yes’ Unmasked 68 Years of Washington Duplicity
They say that even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn, and by our lights the Donald just proved that in spades with his spur of the moment acceptance of Kim Jong Un's proposal for a summit meeting. It is no exaggeration to say that the shock of it nearly...
Inflated Threats: China and Russia Aren’t Nearly as Dangerous as We’re Meant To Believe
"[Rome] pretends to aspire to peace but unerringly generates war…there was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger…Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors…the whole world was pervaded by a host of...
Security Forces Launch New ISIS Operation; 40 Killed in Iraq
Once Upon a Time, Congress Actually Fought Saudi Arms Deals. It Can Again.
“That should’ve happened so fast that Congress couldn’t step in.” These were the words of Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen at February’s prestigious Munich Security Conference, in a panel discussion on whether President Obama should have used military...


