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European and international security after the Ukraine Crisis

We may be in the gravest military crisis since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962… How will it all end? It could all end in…

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Where can Trump go to escape the law? Israeli settlements in the West Bank?

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Trump’s failure to protect the American people from the coronavirus

Donald Trump has failed and continues to fail to protect the American people from the coronoavirus.

By mid-July, 137,000 people had died so far. Projections were that 224,000 people might die from Covid-19 by November 1, 2020. We are on pace to exceed that prediction.

The reason the cornoavirus has killed so many people and is raging out of control in the United States, when other countries (e.g., in Europe) have largely brought the virus under control, is that the U.S. government effort is led by President Donald Trump.

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What do Trump and the election have to do with international law, politics, and security?

You cannot make plans for additions to your house while there is a bulldozer outside, with its engines revving, actively engaged in tearing down your…

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Biden’s Challenge: How do you campaign against a lying, neofascist cult leader?

    On lies and Truth, see 1) Margaret Sullivan, “Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential; It’s also increasingly fruitless,” Washington Post, August 29, 2020 (7:00…

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Trump’s creeping coup d’état: Democrats must get ready to impeach again (Part I)

Trump’s creeping coup d’état:  Democrats must get ready to impeach again (Part I) “The American catastrophe seems to get worse every day, but the events…