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 […]
Arms sales have been a fixture in American foreign policy since the advent of the Cold War. Selling…
Progressives and fiscal conservatives don’t agree on too much these days when it comes to the federal…
This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly newsletter from Inkstick Media and The…
This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly newsletter from Inkstick Media and The…
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 […]
It can be easy to overlook how the rest of the world is making sense of America’s chaotic campaign…
The announcement that the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize came…
Like so many others working in Washington amid the stresses of our current political climate, I…
“The prospect of domination by the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and…
This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly newsletter from Inkstick Media and The…
A common dictate of contemporary culture is that we should question our assumptions. Decision-making and…
Pundits assumed the man who would fundamentally restructure US-Mexican trade was Donald Trump. In the…
Future historians will mark 2020 as the year dominated by a global pandemic, armed conflict, incredible…