When the president wants to fulfill a constitutional duty — like nominating a Supreme Court justice — Congress is up in arms. When he launches a blatantly unconstitutional war, it shrugs.
Bombing the Islamic State Is Like Watering Its Roots
Responding to Islamic extremism with violence is reminiscent of the sorcerer’s apprentice in Fantasia creating more brooms by whacking them with an axe.
Islamic Extremism Not Only Protean But Potentially Synergistic
The Islamic State and Al Qaeda could combine and form an entity more dangerous than the sum of its parts.
Why Are Disproportionate Numbers of Islamic Extremists Engineers?
Beware The Certainty Seekers!
When Hillary Clinton Out-Neoconned a Neocon
Believe it or not, the Bush administration’s Paul Wolfowitz showed even more concern about Palestine than Hillary Clinton.
From Fukushima to Brussels, Nuclear Energy Isn’t Worth the Risks
The scariest part of the Brussels attacks is something that hasn’t happened yet and hopefully never will: an act of nuclear terrorism.
Islamic Extremism Is Nothing if Not Protean
With terrorism, just like anything else, nature abhors a vacuum.
The U.S. Is Militarizing the Pacific — and Not Taking Questions
Hawaii’s members of Congress sit at the linchpin of a huge realignment of U.S. military power. Good luck getting them to talk about it.
Donald Trump: Foreign Policy’s Useful Idiot?
It might take someone of Trump’s vapid visibility to drive home the point that “world’s policeman” is not a viable role for the U.S. to play.
When Islam Polices Extremists
Those in the West who call on Muslims to condemn those who commit terrorist attacks in the name of Islam don’t seem to be aware that is already being done.