U.S. Out of Afghanistan: Here’s How
The ongoing war in Afghanistan—America’s longest (and most expensive) conflict to date—is a mess and the military has no idea how to clean it up. […]
Don’t Let Venezuela Distract from the North Korea Crisis
President Donald J. Trump has marched headlong into another escalating crisis—this time with the imploding Venezuela. And this one is altogether avoidable. Although the growing […]
Trump Just Gave In to the Swamp Creatures and It’s Ugly
President Trump on Wednesday signed legislation sanctioning Russia for its purported hacking of last year’s presidential election. The new law not only needlessly threatens to […]
China and Russia Buy Time on North Korea
A shocking event has occurred in the meandering psychodrama of America’s relationship with North Korea: the world’s great powers have unanimously voted to intensify sanctions […]
Sanctions Squeeze: We’re Headed for World War
Washington is atwitter with talk of sanctions. Lawmakers left and right are riding high, as they “cry havoc!” and let slip the dogs of economic […]
Hollow Men: Russia and the Deep State Bureaucrats Who Hate It
Much has been written in recent months of the “existential” nature of the Russian threat. Yet, as I’ve documented here and at my website, the […]
America’s Newest Epidemic: Toxic Russophobia
Since Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, a constant drumbeat of Russophobia has resounded throughout the halls of power. Today, the drumbeat has become […]
What’s Next With Iran?
I’ve spent a long time arguing against the executive agreement that the Obama Administration inked with Iran in 2015. One of the earliest points of […]
About That ‘Private’ Meeting With Putin…
Ian Bremmer, the bookish president of the Eurasia Group, the world’s largest geopolitical risk firm, broke a story that MSNBC has turned into the next […]
Qatar Needs to be Brought to Heel
Since June, a Saudi Arabian-led coalition of Arab states that includes Egypt and Jordan have initiated a blockade against the small Arab state of Qatar. […]
The Way Forward is Up
In 1983, Ronald Reagan gave a monumental speech declaring his administration’s intention to build and place space-based missile defense systems in low Earth orbit. The […]
Madmen and Nukes: North Korean Edition
The North Koreans put on their own pyrotechnic display over the July 4th weekend with a successful launch of an ICBM into the Sea of […]
No, the Hipster Barista Does Not Represent Millennials
Have you seen that “hipster barista” meme floating around the Internet? How many of you have scoffed at the Millennial generation for being a bunch […]
Restoring the Balance of Power in the Mideast, Trump Style
As the world slowly divides roughly along the cultural “fault lines” Samuel Huntington warned us about two decades ago, two major stories have surfaced from […]
The Media Doesn’t Know Its Viewers
The news, like so many other things in life today, is a business. But unlike most businesses (where there is a philosophy that the customer […]
Dear GOP, Trumpism is the Way Forward
Two stories keep circling in my head: the first details how the majority of Donald Trump’s voters still support the president overwhelmingly. The second is […]
Obama, Not Trump, Was Weak on Russia
When he first came into office, Barack Obama promised to reset relations with Russia. He vowed to undo the purported damage of the George W. […]
Trump in Iowa: Making Immigration Great Again
Donald J. Trump rose to political fame when he identified illegal immigration as a top threat to the United States and advocated a serious crackdown. […]
Victory in Afghanistan is Still Possible
“When Americans suffer casualties, they run away from battle,” the high-ranking Taliban commander, Seif Galali, famously told an Al Jazeera interviewer in 2009, after U.S. […]
The Cold Civil War Just Got Warmer
The Republicans want to kill poor people; they want to throw grandma off a cliff; Republicans want dirty water and polluted air; Republicans want to […]