Author’s note: as Trump’s presidency unfolds into its third year, the idea that Trumpism really is little more than banal…
Rather than signify any beginning of weaponizing foreign policy and national security in politics, the 9/11 attacks simply marked the…
After events in Baton Rouge, LA, Falcon Heights, MN, and Dallas, TX, America—in particular white America—sorely needs to take stock…
Least among the problems posed by the UK’s Brexit vote to leave the EU are the actual effects that will…
Violence and hate feed each other, as the violence in the Middle East shows; the West must be careful not to play…
It’s not a convincing argument that Trump picking a woman or a person of color will do much or anything to…
For the crime of terrorism to have weight, we must move globally towards a more specific definition that goes beyond…
America Doesn’t Have Same Muslim, Immigration Problems As Europe, and Must Avoid EU Mistakes As Americans view today’s ISIS terrorist…
Author’s note: when I wrote this, I was confident Clinton would win but still worried about the chance of a…
Happy Risky New Year If people thought 2015 was bad, 2016 shows no sign of letting on up on risk. The…
People claiming that the withdrawal from Iraq of U.S. forces carried out by the Obama Administration from 2010-2011 explains the…
GOP Ideas Help ISIS, Endanger Americans Just because Obama’s ISIS, counterterrorism, and Middle East strategy is complex and will not…
The lengths to which far too many people on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict go to minimize or deny…
Republicans, predictably after the Paris attacks, have turned on Syrian refugees as the latest group from which they can arouse…
When Paris was hit by terrorism and French civilians were killed, the world stood up for the French. When Israel is…