Doug Bandow

Socialism appears to be all the rage on the Democratic left. But for the most part the talk is a…

On November 1, 1961, Lenin’s tomb disgorged Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin’s embalmed remains. After his death in March 1953, Stalin’s body…

October three decades ago the fall of the Berlin Wall was still in the future. But ongoing events in Hungary…

Congress wouldn’t declare war or even approve presidential troop deployments in Syria. But sanctimonious legislators now are preening for the…

When I was asked to give a speech in New York City last month, I proposed a Monday. I figured…

In mid-1939 German Chancellor Adolf Hitler had a problem. He wanted to go to war with the Soviet Union in…

The San Francisco School Board recently confronted perhaps the greatest crisis in the city’s history. Forget fire, earthquake, fear of…

A century ago, in July 1919, Germany began its journey to the lowest reaches of Hades. Another 26 years would…

The Islamic State’s attempt to set up a Middle East caliphate has failed spectacularly. The group never had much of…

On June 15, 1864 the Army of the Potomac established what became the siege of Petersburg, which acted as the…