Yesterday, American officials and their Russian counterparts marked the end of the Megatons to Megawatts program with the last shipment of Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) from Russia to the United States.
Category Archives: Commentary
Politics as Sport (And Guess Who the Losers Are?)
The growing pressure on Washington Redskins owner, Dan Snyder, to change the team’s name prompted TIME Magazine to suggest in its November 4th issue an “alternative name more fitting for a sports team in the nation’s capital.”
The Power of a Radical Minority – at Home and Abroad
In transformational times, assessing and reassessing one’s basic assumptions is critical for navigating the confusing and dangerous shoals of public and foreign affairs.
The Russian Proposal: Two Questions about the Syria Crisis that Matter
Last night, President Obama confirmed that he is in favor of giving diplomacy a chance to succeed in defusing a potential conflict with Syria.
The Eisenhower Family’s Unsuccessful Appeal to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission
What a sad and unworthy place we have come to on the Eisenhower Memorial!
Freedom and the Search for its Meaning
Lewis H. Lapham, former editor of Harper’s Magazine, once said that leadership “…imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.”
The Perils of Making Predictions
Pundits beware: Punxsutawney Phil gained a reprieve last week, after narrowly escaping lynch mobs and the possibility of time on death row.
The Most Important Foreign Policy “Secret” of All
Earlier this week North Korea threatened to break the 1953 ceasefire with South Korea, citing the probability of new international sanctions and U.S.-South Korean military exercises scheduled for later this month and next.
The Road Ahead
The sun rises slowly in southern Pennsylvania, ushering in a day full of promise and potential.
Only in Washington
Earlier this month I arrived in Santa Monica to participate in a Milken Institute Forum with Evan Thomas, former Newsweek columnist and political biographer.