[This short story traces an imaginary future history of the US.] The “United States of America” lasted 12 centuries, although it has long been based primarily in Europe. Today, the last US president, ...

What is behind US President Donald Trump’s bromance with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Is it essentially personal? Is there a strategy involved? Is it ideological? Is it the first step within a ...

In Part 1, we began a discussion of the arguments developed by economist Jeffrey Sachs concerning the historical causes and geopolitical lessons to be drawn from the war in Ukraine. Sachs, like many ...

Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers — Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General ...

It all began on February 28 at the most climactic geopolitical moment of 2025, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy confronted an increasingly aggressive tagteam composed of US President Donald Trump and Vice ...

Yes, “shock and awe” (S&A) is back in the second age of US President Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new administration ...

In times of war, truth tends to take a backseat to propaganda. The current shock over policies that yesterday, under Biden, were held up as eternal truths and today, under Trump, as dangerous ...

A recent article published by EuroNews begins with this statement: “Ursula von der Leyen has called for ‘comprehensive’ security guarantees for Ukraine that can deter future Russian aggression.” This ...

In Part 1, we discussed the current surprisingly extreme rhetoric used by some European leaders in reaction to their sense of having been betrayed by the United States’s new Trump administration ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. Last ...

Following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December, the new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham government is turning heads. The international community remains skeptical this al-Qaeda-affiliated ...