The Gaza border, six months after Oct. 7
The sound of artillery can be heard in the distance. By this late point in the day, the military had already announced that it was rotating forces out of Gaza.
Czechoslovakia
The Urgent Need for UN Reform
The UN’s response to October 7 makes reform more urgent than ever. UN reform used to be a bipartisan priority — it must now be again.
Memos
Renewing NATO
Peace requires deterrence which requires military might
Op-eds
Understanding That Weakness Is Provocative Is Deterrence 101
Biden has canceled yet another test of our ICBM system so as not to cause more tension with China.
Op-eds
Biden’s Bold Gamble Might Just Save Ukraine
The Ukraine War is only a week old, so it’s far too soon to make any judgements about its outcome. One thing is clear, though: Russian President Vladimir Putin badly miscalculated. He is facing...
Op-eds
Foreign Disinformation: What the US Government Can Start Doing Now
The Kremlin is engaged in a “global influence campaign to destabilize sovereign countries,” including the United States, the U.S. Treasury Department reaffirmed, as it slapped sanctions on four Ukrainians...
Op-eds
What’s at stake in Syria
Syria is a far-away land about which we know little. But we do know this: Over the past seven years, more than a half million people have been slaughtered there, with an estimated 150 murder...
Op-eds
Erdogan and the Meaning of Hitler
It’s one of those questions political science majors debate over too many beers at the college pub: Which is better, a parliamentary system or a government headed by a powerful chief execut...
Op-eds
Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Chuck Schumer a Letter
Or may I call you “Chuck”? About 30 years ago when I first met you, you were an informal kind of guy. You had recently been elected to the House from a district in Brooklyn and Queens...
Op-eds
The Real Lessons of Munich
On Oct. 10, 1938, 75 years ago today, Nazi Germany formally took control of the Sudetenland, the iron-rich portion of Czechoslovakia containing most of that country’s ethnic German populati...
Op-eds
Dark Past Haunts Czech Election
It’s not often that a 70-year-old political dispute plays a role in a contemporary political campaign. But that’s precisely what is happening in the race for president of the Czech Re...
Op-eds
The CIA Goes Back to the Movies
Well, it sure beats talking about Benghazi. A few days after the (acting) chief spook wrote his review of Zero Dark Thirty, the Agency itself has returned to its new favorite subje...
Op-eds
Oliver Stone’s Party Line
Re-litigating the Cold War and defending the honor of poor old Joe Stalin.
Op-eds
The Mirage of the Arab Spring
We Americans are nice people. We don’t like to see anyone living under tyranny. So when protests broke out against the authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, most of us were supportive...
Op-eds
Return of the Czech Communists
Vaclav Havel is turning over in his grave.
Op-eds
Mocking Justice in Norway: The Breivik Trial Targets Contrarian Intellectuals
“Wow.” This is the only word Tonje Brenna heard Anders Behring Breivik utter as he methodically killed sixty-nine of her fellow Norwegian Labor Party acti...
Op-eds
Iranians Incite Genocide; Israelis ‘Employ Invective’
Gosh, which is worse?
Op-eds
Why Crunch Time is Coming for Israel and Iran
In recent months, expectations of a coming Israeli pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear installations have become increasingly hyped in the media and the public domain. There is now a w...
Op-eds
It’s Not the Arab Spring, It’s the Nahda
And it’s about “subjugating people” and “the Islamization of life.”
Op-eds
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
Debunking the transformational power of internet freedom.