Sanders prefers to continue his pillory of all things high finance to the exclusion of nearly all else — foreign policy, in particular.
Continue reading Some Cold Water for That Bern: Sanders Has Nothing Close to a Foreign Policy
In an age in which soft power has never been more important, the social influence of a platform like Humans of New York cannot be underestimated.
Continue reading Let Us Now Humanize Great Men: HONY and American Foreign Policy
Today’s far-right is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, preaching bigotry veneered with a rhetorical gloss of intellectual honesty and populism.
Continue reading So Swings the Pendulum: Refugees and the Far-Right
American politicians are engaged in a dangerous war of words with Islamic State, which is exactly what the group wants.
Continue reading Safe Spaces and Safe Zones: How America’s Culture Wars Bleed into Its Foreign Wars
Before a shocked and awed Western public cries for military intervention, it would do well to internalize three lessons from the devastation wrought in Paris.
Continue reading A Tale of Two or More Cities: What the West Must Learn From Beirut and Paris
Millennials may be a greater danger to American foreign policy than any number of “little green men.”
Continue reading Millennials at the Gate: The Wary Inheritors of American Foreign Policy
President Obama’s recently proposed AUMF against the Islamic State is meant to serve political, not legal, ends.
Continue reading Why Obama’s AUMF Has Nothing to Do with Legality
Following a string of controversial grand jury decisions, race has gripped the national discourse.
Continue reading Still “Yearning to Breathe Free” in America?
With former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel stepping down and Republicans preparing to seize control of Congress, US foreign policy appears to be adrift.
Continue reading The Case for Dispassionate Foreign Policy: A Historical View
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