On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.
The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.
The supposed promises made at the Singapore Summit don’t appear to be working out in the real world.
Clashes between the US and Chinese navies in the South China Sea have intensified.
South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.
Hillary Clinton isn’t running for anything in 2018, but that isn’t stopping Republicans from running against her.
Under the proposal certain visa-seekers (such as China and India) would have to have their social media presence scrutinized.
The woman who lost the 2016 election is apparently not going to go away.
By threatening to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, Donald Trump is making it far less likely that any upcoming talks with North Korea will succeed.
John Bolton is leading a cry for preemptive war against North Korea.
President Trump has announced that he’ll be imposing significant tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. This is an unwise decision.
Why does the U.S. continue to pursue the seemingly impossible goal of denuclearization with regard to North Korea? In part, it’s because we’re still locked into thirty-year-old rhetoric.
Expecting North Korea to agree to diplomatic talks that are aimed at getting rid of their nuclear weapons is asking for the impossible, and ensuring there will be no progress on the diplomatic front for the foreseeable future.
Once again, President Trump is going soft on Russia. Why? I’ll leave that up to the reader to decide.
POTUS decided to start the New Year by insulting Pakistan over Twitter.
Jim Nabors, who became famous as Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle USMC, has died at the age of 87.
Donald Trump continues to be as astoundingly ignorant about the most powerful weapons the U.S. military possesses as he was as a candidate.
More thoughts related to Gill v. Whitford and the problem of extreme gerrymandering.
More provocative action from North Korea, and another reminder that there are no easy answers to the problems represented by the Kim regime.
President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords was neither the big win his supporters claim nor the disaster his critics fear.
Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.
The reality of global climate change made itself evident again in 2016.
Donald Trump says he will ‘leave his business,’ but is providing very few details and continuing to leave the impression that he will enter office with more conflicts of interest than any previous President in American history.
As America prepares for a Presidential transition, an old conflict with a history of turning dangerous rears its head.
The incoming president’s business interests are a yuuuge problem.
The A Priest, a Rabbi and a Swami walk into a Babar Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.
A Trump surrogate warns of a “taco truck on every corner” if Trump loses. That sounds like more of a promise than a threat if you ask me.
A third major ISIS-inspired or planned attack in three weeks.
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Outbreak that began in 2014 to be officially over.
We will have a two party system for the foreseeable future.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face a Court Martial for the circumstances that led to his being capture and held captive by the Taliban for five years.
Representatives from 195 nations reached an agreement supposedly devoted to addressing global climate change, but it’s really more hype than anything else.
Mexicans are more likely to be returning home than migrating to the United States, a new report finds.
Even the people hired to advice Ben Carson on foreign policy seem to recognize that he is clueless on the subject, and has no apparent desire to educate himself.
In the wake of the attacks in Paris, some people have argued that American solidarity with France, in contrast to seeming disregard for tragedy elsewhere, is something we should feel bad about. That argument is ridiculous.
Reports of at least up to sixty dead, a hostage situation, and attacks at multiple locations in Paris.
President Obama now has enough votes in the Senate, and probably the House, to ensure that Congress cannot block the nuclear deal with Iran.
It will never actually happen, of course, but some of Donald Trump’s fellow candidates for President have been eager to endorse his idea to abolish birthright citizenship.
Contrary to what Donald Trump claims, immigrants are less likely to commit crime than others.
Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.
