Borrowed War, Busted Democracy
Fans of the Trump-Netanyahu blitzkrieg against Iran are working hard to extract a strategic triumph from what increasingly looks like…
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Iran: The Logical Coda to Vietnam
Every recent president who has launched a war of choice while sidestepping or subverting Congress’s constitutional authority to declare war…
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License it and forget it: the Trump “brand” as foreign policy
Donald Trump’s original boast —that he was a relentlessly successful real-estate tycoon who kept racking up wins in his formative…
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Epstein, Israel, and the Forbidden Intelligence Question
James Bond caper or Lolita Book 2 – how do we describe our greatest national obsession? One reason the Jeffrey…
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Trump’s Ceasefire and Debt to Biden
As of October 2025, the guns have fallen silent, at least for now. Twenty Israeli hostages seized in Hamas’s October…
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Damning Bibi Dangerously: When does criticism of his Gaza policies become antisemitism?
Author’s Note: This article was completed just before the outbreak of the Israel–Iran-US conflagration. How the crisis unfolds will inevitably…
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Biden’s Quest for Peace In Gaza Remains Hostage to Bibi’s Extremists, Leaving Little Room For a Lasting Deal
For weeks Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has been engaged in a deft bait-and-switch gambit to provoke Hamas into rejecting…
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Netanyahu Storms Congress, Shaves Truth
If you expected a conciliatory Netanyahu, you don’t know your man. His bellowed address to the U.S. Congress this afternoon…
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Bibi’s Last Charade: Pretending War is Peace
Author’s note: Trying to analyze the Gaza crisis as it has evolved over the past two months is enough to…
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Staring into the Abyss – and Finding Silver Linings for Gaza and Israel
Instant postmortems are inherently fools’ errands, especially within the context of volatile crises like the sudden direct Iran-Israel shootout. …