- October 7, 2016And truly, this is not about Donald Trump... it's about us.
- September 9, 2016We have our precision weaponry, and terrorist groups have theirs.
- May 16, 2016The war against ISIS is being conveyed to us as if we're on Snapchat. Important things happen, then they're gone.
- May 9, 2016America's lone superpower status is being challenged in regions around the globe -- and the question remains how it will respond.
- December 4, 2015Wars are never quick, cheap or easy: let's acknowledge what a full-scale war in the Middle East would actually mean.
- December 4, 2015Wars are never quick, cheap or easy: Let's acknowledge what a full-scale war in the Middle East would actually mean.
- November 27, 2015Living in America sometimes resembles taking part in a Ponzi scheme, and its likely to get worse before it gets better.
- November 16, 2015At $109 billion, the US reconstruction program in Afghanistan is already, in today's dollars, larger than the Marshall Plan, and still the country is in a shambles.
- November 2, 2015The American ruling class is ensconced in the "Washington Consensus" and deaf to any evidence that challenges its worldview.
- October 24, 2015Until America plunged into Iraq in 2003, there hadn't been such an upset of power in the Middle East since World War I.