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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains elusive about the endgame in Gaza but time is closing in on him. He has a solemn obligation to...
Benjamin Netanyahu’s face may soon be on Wanted posters around the world. In Israel, the prime minister has been charged with various counts of...
How long can Netanyahu hold out politically against criticisms from within Israel and outside its borders?
The United States should be cooperating with China on how to push the world away from fossil fuels, not engaging in counterproductive trade wars.
Japan’s recovery from the devastation of World War II was assisted by another war. Japanese manufacturers and the service industries around military...
If Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election in November, all sorts of hell will break lose. Mexico will face a huge border crisis. China will...
The process of crafting congressional legislation is often likened to sausage-making. Best not to look behind the scenes at the mechanics of the...
What’s happening in Haiti today could prefigure the future of the United States, too, if Donald Trump wins in November and continues to undermine...
With its “war on terrorism,” the United States launched a global campaign against the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks as well as a number of...
Ever since it withdrew its settlements in 2005, Israel has periodically attacked Gaza. This shelling of locations throughout the narrow strip of land...
The head of the U.S. Strategic Command told Congress last week that a powerful set of countries is ganging up against the United States and World War...
Presidential elections in the United States are almost always decided by domestic issues. Once in a while a global concern like terrorism or a...
The best scenario is to achieve some reduction of tensions, some release of hostages, some stepping away from the brink of a wider war.
When Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, it focused on embedding the civil rights of the formerly enslaved in the Constitution. But the...
While Americans are debating esoteric clauses of the Constitution in an effort to determine Trump’s place on or off the ballot, Brazil is taking far...
The Korean War ended more than 70 years ago, and a tense peace has reigned ever since on the Korean peninsula. The two Koreas have exchanged artillery...
It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential...
The EU is still a beacon for progressives around the world, but for how long?
It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential...
The global economy is already undergoing its most fundamental transformation since the Industrial Revolution; if workers and trade unions are at the...
Henry Kissinger wrote his doctoral dissertation about Europe’s “long peace” after the defeat of Napoleon, focusing on how conservative statesmen...
A post-Kissinger realpolitik would acknowledge power politics and the ruthless reality of military force but would nevertheless find ways to assert...
Instead of supporting candidates who promise truly transformational change, voters are backing fast-food populists who advertise options that are even...