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by | Jun 8, 2020

America’s cities are aflame. The federal treasury is empty. The electorate is angry. The world is intractable. China is on…

by | Apr 24, 2020

Historians generally mark the beginning of the Armenian Genocide with the arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals by Turkish authorities on…

by | Mar 4, 2020

Tensions are rising between Greece and Turkey this week, a result of Turkey’s statement that it would no longer prevent…

by | Dec 18, 2019

When the British diplomat Robert Ker Porter arrived in the Persian city of Ispahan, having ventured there from St. Petersburg…

by | Dec 10, 2019

The Little Cold War between the United States and Iran rages on. Iran’s theocratic leaders have declared their intentions to…

by | Nov 27, 2019

Nervous self-congratulation will be the order of the day next week in London as representatives of the 29 member nations…

by | Nov 26, 2019

In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians held a three-day harvest feast at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts….

by | Oct 28, 2019

Say what you want about nation-building; its results pale next to the can-do of American fighting men. In a lightning…

by | Oct 23, 2019

“Trump has betrayed the Syrian Kurds” — so goes a popular refrain regarding the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the…

by | Oct 22, 2019

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

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