Latin America
The Monroe Doctrine: Stop the revisionist madness and listen
Nostalgia is not strategy. Offering a sober assessment of 19th and 20th Century US foreign policy and lessons learned the hard way.
January 09, 2026
Analysis
Middle East
By suspending 37 aid orgs is Israel pushing toward a final expulsion?
At the very least, the decision to cut loose every major Gaza humanitarian group could lead to the utter collapse of Trump's peace plan
January 09, 2026
Military Industrial Complex
The reality of Trump’s cartoonish $1.5 trillion DOD budget proposal
This dramatic escalation in military spending is a recipe for more waste, fraud, and abuse
January 08, 2026
Latin America
Trump's sphere of influence gambit is sloppy, self-sabotage
Great powers have historically sought regional sway but the president's Venezuela and Greenland ploys risk anything but
January 08, 2026
Washington Politics
JFK oversaw Vietnam decapitation. He didn't live to witness the rest.
A coup likely set unto motion by Kennedy memo ended with the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in fall of 1963. Two years later, the US was fully at war.
January 08, 2026
Washington Politics
Has my party become 'eunuchs in the thrall' of the president?
No provision in the Constitution allows the president to unilaterally bomb another nation's capital and remove its leader
January 07, 2026
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