Trump’s Undeclared State of Emergency

Posted by on Oct 24, 2019 in Articles, China, Featured, Russia and Eastern Europe | 0 comments Trump’s public appeal to China last week to help with uncovering dirt on the Biden family was both a brazen flouting of the law and (it pains me to say) an astute political tactic. “China should start an investigation into the Bidens, because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine,” Trump announced to reporters only moments after saying, about trade talks...
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The New Age of Protest

Posted by on Oct 5, 2019 in Articles, China, Featured, Russia and Eastern Europe | 0 comments Led by young people, climate strikers blocked traffic on two mornings at the end of last month in Washington, DC. On the first day, protestors chained themselves to a boat three blocks from the White House, and 32 activists were arrested. On the second day, activists targeted the EPA and Trump International Hotel. It was a not-so-subtle suggestion to commuters stuck in their cars on those...
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Democracy Desperately Need a Reboot

Posted by on Aug 27, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights, Russia and Eastern Europe | 0 comments If you’re a supporter of Donald Trump — or Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil or Matteo Salvini in Italy — you probably think that democracy has never been in better health. Recent elections in these countries didn’t just serve to rotate the elite from the conventional parties. Voters went to the polls and elected outsiders who promised to transform their political systems. That demonstrates that...
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Russia and the Future of Europe

Posted by on Aug 27, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Russia and Eastern Europe | 0 comments Europe is gearing up for much-anticipated elections this week to the European parliament. Austria, however, now has to deal with a very unexpected snap election — thanks to a drunk politician, a Russian honeypot, and a leaked video. This scandal currently rocking Austria may ultimately play a decisive role in the European elections as well. Heinz-Christian Strache was once the ambitious,...
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Mueller, RussiaGate, and the 2020 Elections

Posted by on Apr 13, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Russia and Eastern Europe | 0 comments In horror movies, the monster can usually be dispatched in only one way. A werewolf requires a silver bullet. A vampire will only stay dead with a stake through the heart. The Blob shrivels in contact with the icy cold. For many opponents of Donald Trump, the report by special counsel Robert Mueller was supposed to be the magic method of taking down the president. After all, like a movie monster,...
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It’s a Borderful World

Posted by on Jan 7, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Russia and Eastern Europe, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Nation-states: what a quaint notion. As a means of organizing territory, they seem to be a brief transition period between large empires and an even larger, borderless world. Sure, nation-states might live on in the form of anthems and flags and independence days, but the idea of fixed borders just doesn’t make sense in a world of cell phones, the Internet, and global assembly lines. Borders...
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