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Trump not responsible for Iran’s behavior

by Bobby Ghosh As the nuclear negotiations between the world powers and Iran approach a denouement, the Biden administration is turning up the heat on … Donald Trump!? Facing a Republican clamor against reviving the 2015 deal, the White House is keen to reframe the discussion in ...

Guest essay: U.S.-Israel alliance makes the world a safer place

by Stuart V. Pavilack The Dominion Post published a guest essay Aug. 22 entitled “Teaching about Sept. 11 in America.” It had less to do with teaching than to slander our country, its leadership and Israel. Does anyone believe the United States is involved in choosing Saudi ...

Sept. 11, 2001-21: 20 years of grief

The average college student has no true memory of Sept. 11, 2001. Neither do current high school, middle school or elementary school students. They were too young — if they had even been born yet — to remember the day two planes took down the twin towers of the World Trade Center, while ...

Immense scale of Bush’s policy screw-up

by Chris Reed In 1983, Harvard-educated psychiatrist turned Carter administration bureaucrat turned conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer wrote a remarkably prescient column for Time magazine about “the mirror-image fallacy” — the presumption of so many American policymakers ...

President Biden should just admit: ‘We blew it’

by John M. Crisp Joe Biden was probably always going to be a one-term president. His age was a political liability when he defeated Donald Trump in 2020. And given how time works, it will be more so in 2024. But his age may be irrelevant in light of the chaos in Kabul. Few ...

This is Biden’s Kobayashi Maru

Kobayashi Maru. It’s a term familiar to Star Trek fans: a no-win scenario — a Starfleet test where cadets must choose between saving a disabled civilian vessel, putting themselves at risk and starting an intergalactic war, or leaving the civilians behind, most likely to die. The ...