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 23, 2015As nations confront the threat of Daesh/ISIS, Israel still has time to make a brave peace with Palestinians.
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 16, 2015Articles and analysis as the world comes to terms with Friday's terrorism in Paris.
November 12, 2015Ultimately, the occupation is unsustainable, but Netanyahu continues to ratchet up the rhetoric.
November 8, 2015The Pentagon just won another small skirmish in its long war with Social Security and Medicare. President Obama and Congress are making sure the Pentagon gets what it wants next year.
November 4, 2015Climate change won't just disrupt natural systems, it will spark new human conflicts over resources.
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.
October 20, 2015Tunisia remains one of the only countries in the Middle East not crippled by US intervention.
