Author’s note: when I wrote this, I was confident Clinton would win but still worried about the chance of a…
With its focus on national security, the mid-December Republican debate, though a month past, can still serve as a stark…
Happy Risky New Year If people thought 2015 was bad, 2016 shows no sign of letting on up on risk. The…
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This is THE ONE chart / infographic you need to see that breaks down the broad components of Obama’s very…
People claiming that the withdrawal from Iraq of U.S. forces carried out by the Obama Administration from 2010-2011 explains the…
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In the wake of Turkey’s downing of a Russian military jet that violated its airspace and Russia’s resulting casualties, tensions…
Republicans, predictably after the Paris attacks, have turned on Syrian refugees as the latest group from which they can arouse…
As this historic terrorist attack unfolds, France, Europe, the West, and the Middle East need to really think about what…
Author’s note: as Trump pulls U.S. troops out of Syria, it’s worth noting what I pointed out here in late…
How three TV shows illustrate critical dynamics of the Syrian Civil War and how two books show us why we need to…
By intervening squarely on the side of Shiite Bashar al-Assad against his own mainly Sunni people and the entire Sunni…
Grading Obama on what has—and has not—been done by his administration regarding the Syrian Civil War Originally published on LinkedIn…
Top ten political and foreign policy lessons from Game of Thrones, or, how Game of Thrones can rescue us from…