President Trump stood before the UN General Assembly this week and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea just as a new NPR poll suggested that three-quarters of the population are unaware that he has the sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. It should also come as no surprise that the public is in the dark […]
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been starting to worry I might be losing touch with reality.…
These are scary and unprecedented times. Our subconscious evolutionary biology makes us crave…
Five years ago this month, a Saudi-led coalition began a bombing campaign in Yemen that was designed to…
The US Department of Defense announced in 2018 that it was elevating the priority it placed on developing…
The war against the Islamic State (ISIS) appears to be coming to an end in Iraq. Americans are again talking about winning and starting to think about what comes next. But I can’t help but wonder if this is the same “victory” President Bush famously declared on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln with […]
“Neither were the physicians at first of any service, ignorant as they were of the proper way to treat…
When talking about policy issues, especially foreign policy issues, it can be hard to strike a balance…
The US has signed a long-awaited agreement with the Taliban to end the 18-year conflict in Afghanistan.…
Every month, it seems, brings a new act in the Trump administration’s war on the media. In January,…
If you open the news on any given day, I’ll bet you can probably find some hit piece on China, Russia,…
The Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy will undermine the United States’…
Yesterday, in the time it took me to discover that my local Target was completely out of hand sanitizer,…