In the wake of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with his Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia Tuesday, defenders of freedom worldwide can be forgiven for thinking they had seen this horror story before. After all, an expansionist European power pressed its claim to the territory of another sovereign nation in part based on the […]

I’m outraged! I only now learned that in just four years the United States provided $175 billion in foreign aid to 16 European nations, including France, Italy and the UK! It’s shocking, but it’s true! A long time ago, there was this thing called World War II. It started about a year after a popular […]

This is one of the darkest and most shameful days in modern American history. By unilaterally imposing 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico in violation of a trade agreement he himself signed in 2018, President Trump has betrayed our closest friends, allies and trading partners. Instead of working hand-in-hand with our North American neighbors to […]

So it’s come to this for the United States. In 1948, the U.S. launched a massive airlift of supplies into Berlin to help prevent over two million people from starving in the face of a total blockade by our enemy, the Soviet Union. In 2024, the U.S. will launch air drops into Gaza to help […]

After this week's testimony in the impeachment hearings, the contours of President Donald Trump's abuse of power for personal advantage have become crystal clear. Trump violated U.S. law when he solicited the interference of a foreign power in an American election. Looking ahead to 2020, Trump demanded the new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announce an […]

The United States was the world's lone "hyperpower" when President George W. Bush launched his disastrous and unnecessary war with Iraq in 2003. An economic and military hegemon unchallenged by any single enemy or collection of rivals, the U.S. could and did act with impunity in swiftly toppling Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad. But even […]

Historical events occur twice, Karl Marx famously said, first as tragedy and then as farce. But when it comes to the rampant lawlessness of Republican presidential administrations, the record is a succession of national tragedies for the United States. And the damage to America's democratic institutions is no laughing matter. As President Trump, his attorney […]

Here are some friendly words of advice to my Republican friends eager to regurgitate Donald Trump's talking point about the Democratic Party being "anti-Jewish." Before you hold up Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar as the poster child for anti-Semitic tropes, note that Trump himself already occupies that space. After all, he told those "good negotiator" […]

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was back in the headlines this week--not for any particular wisdom regarding authoritarian regimes and movements she shared with the House Intelligence Committee, but for this: "I personally owe an apology to now-Senator Romney, because I think that we underestimated what was going on in Russia. I was on […]

Never one to miss an opportunity to get his hate on, Donald Trump on Tuesday demanded Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) resign over her unfortunate "all about the Benjamins" comment. Calling her well-received apology "lame," Trump complained, "Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress. I think she should either resign from Congress or she […]