By Andrew P. Miller* – Foreign Affairs A New Paradigm for American Policy. The bond between the United States and Israel has remained extraordinarily close for three decades. The United States has remained in lockstep with Israel through the heady days of the 1990s peace process with the Palestine Liberation...

By Andrew P. Napolitano* – Consortium News By ordering the annihilation of people in speedboats in the Caribbean, Trump and Hegseth have assumed powers that numerous laws forbid. When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child’s cartoon character, in a helicopter using...

By Juan Cole* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF)* Once you’ve crashed this planet, unlike a computer, you won’t be able to reboot it. In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering...

By Polly Toynbee* – IPS Journal (International Politics and Society)* The long decline of social democracy began with the ‘Third Way’. Since then, it has been searching for a new direction. Adull ache permeates Europe’s social democrats as they look back to former glory days, full of regrets and recriminations,...

By Ted Snider* – Responsible Statecraft Between the public, his own intel agencies, and international partners, the admin has a lot more convincing to do. Donald Trump reportedly had a surprise phone conversation with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro last week. Days later, the U.S. State Department formally designated Venezuela’s Cartel...