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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) speaking with Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) at a meeting of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (a.k.a. U.S. Helsinki Commission) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Nov. 19, 2024.
Europe

The Helsinki Commission is a Cold War relic that needs to go

It's become a shadow State Department that is undermining US foreign policy, particularly in Georgia

Battle of Lake Okeechobee 1847
Washington Politics

By the sword: America was born intervening

The warnings against entanglements were never a doctrine of restraint. They were a doctrine of focus. Isolationism was selective.

war comic books
Media

How comics taught us how to love and hate war for nearly a century

While many are propaganda for domestic recruitment and foreign influence, other graphic serials have underscored the brutality of service and US policies

Ngo Dinh Diem vietnam coup assassination
Media

'Kennedy's Coup' signaled regime change doom loop for US

A look back at Diem's assassination, setting off the Vietnam War — who says Washington isn't led by the same self-destructive characters throughout time?

Much ado about a Chinese 'mega-embassy' in London
Europe

Much ado about a Chinese 'mega-embassy' in London

British newspapers and politicians have taken to fighting an imaginary war with Beijing

Zbigniew Brzezinski Camp David Summit
Media

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Foreign policy prophet or blind man?

Ed Luce's ‘cradle to grave’ bio of President Carter’s grand strategist plumbs his hits and misses on Afghanistan and Russia and their impacts today