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The New York trial of former President Donald Trump is, at best, a national embarrassment. But whether you are pro or against Trump, for acquittal...
To put it charitably, America and Americans suffer from a bad case of strategic amnesia. This condition has affected not only how the US is responding...
April 4th is an important date in American history and particularly after World War II. On that date seventy-five years ago, twelve states gathered in...
Dickens called it the “best and worst of times” in his Tale of Two Cities. His great novel contrasted the relative stability and prosperity in...
Has the teflon or kevlar coating protecting Donald Trump finally been penetrated? Has the serial entrepreneur who almost impossibly was able to turn...
America’s government and politics have long lost the ability for rational debate. The current crisis over how to “fix” the border and provide...
With more than eight months remaining before the November 5th election, and despite the polls that seem to favour Donald Trump, no one knows who will...
One advantage of a nightmare is waking up. In America, life is becoming one continuous nightmare. And waking up does not seem to be an option. The...
In the 1980 election Ronald Reagan asked the blockbuster political question that would obliterate Jimmy Carter’s candidacy. “Are you better off...
August 7, 1964, was a dark day for the United States when Congress passed with only two dissenting votes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The resolution...
The United States too often suffers from historical amnesia and technological hubris. One striking example proves this point. Since World War II...
One of the most serious and yet invisible consequences of the 2024 election will be testing the limits to free speech. Indeed, THE question may be...
The World Economic Forum held annually every January in Davos, Switzerland is considered the global gathering of political, business and other elites....
Gstaad, Switzerland: In this Swiss wintry wonderland, the first major snows are still expected. Not quite Davos in attracting the political elite once...
Speculation about what happens in 2024 should be a nice parlor game that on December 31st will reveal either brilliant luck or stupendous stupidity....
How about this thought experiment for 2024? Suspend for a moment the inherent limitations in transposing the past into the present. After all, how...
With Christmas and New Years only a few days away, this should be time for a bit of cheer and good will towards all. But the dire conditions of the...
Perhaps, the most hotly-contested political question as of now in America is whether Donald Trump will become a dictator if elected president next...
With wars raging in Ukraine and Israel, escalation and disaster loom, probably more so than at any time during the last decade. The Biden...
Last week’s column on the 1973 Arab-Israeli War seems prescient given the attack launched by Hamas this past Saturday on Israel. Thus far, and that...
Friday marked the fiftieth anniversary of the fourth Arab-Israeli Middle-East war. Called both the Yom Kippur War as Egypt and Syria attacked on...
In the great and not so great submarine war movies, the image of a sonar operator grasping his headphones anxiously listening for the sounds of an...
Last week’s column raised some truly terrifying “what ifs” that even seven or eight years ago were deemed unthinkable. But that field is so...
In 1962, the redoubtable Herman Kahn released his follow on to “On Thermonuclear War.” This book was called “Thinking the Unthinkable.” Then,...
Who was the US president responsible for creating the greatest economic boom in the nation’s history? And for what was he better known? One hundred...