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On 7 July, 2026, speaking at NATO’s Summit Defense Industry Forum in Turkey, Ukrainian President Zelensky made the case that Ukraine should ...

To be a neutral arbitrator of a conflict between two other countries, a government cannot favor one of the two; otherwise, the veneer of neu...

Just after the E.U. had successfully negotiated (mostly) free-trade treaties with India and a few South American state-level countries, the ...

Early in 2026, “(a)fter months of intense negotiations,” the E.U. concluded “a free-trade deal with India,” which, if ratified by the E.U.’s...

When the human mind becomes too affixed to a political ideology, rather it is “right,” “center,” or “left,” one way that the excessive attac...

In his famous text,  Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes describes the state of nature as one of might, or raw force, being the decider of what is rig...

Even though Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine was prompting E.U. officials to bolster the union’s defenses in 2025, U.S. President Trump’...

During the coronavirus pandemic (2020-2022), Arizona’s Ducey administration allowed bus and light-rail employees to go maskless even though ...

In the early hours of January 3, 2026, the sitting president of Venezuela was captured by the U.S. military and sent to New York, where he w...

Both in the E.U. and U.S., the member-states are semi-sovereign, and are even guaranteed all residual sovereignty that is not in any of the ...

In the United States, Christmas is the last official holiday of the calendar-year, and Thanksgiving is the penultimate holiday. New Year’s D...

Does the E.U. itself instantiate a decline in European civilization? So says a National Security Strategy for the United States released by ...

As American, Ukrainian, and Russian negotiating delegations were flying around the world in early December, 2025 to conduct various negotiat...

“We remain committed to the principle that international borders must not be changed by force.” [1] This statement was signed by E.U. leade...

As a former KGB agent, Russia’s President Putin could probably write a book and teach a course on the art of lying, or fabrication, as means...

Besides its humanitarian work, the UN can boast of providing a situs in which officials of national governments can talk to and with each ot...

Like proud male birds dancing for a female for the chance to reproduce, U.S. President Trump and Ukraine’s Zelensky engaged in public postur...

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Less than a week before Harvard’s graduation ceremony in May, 2025, and about a month after Trump had frozen $2.2 billion in federal funding...