Worst. 100 Days. Ever.

Posted by on Apr 28, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments If I were a Trump supporter, I’d be furious at the coverage of the president’s first 100 days. The mainstream media has engaged in a bout of competitive schadenfreude as headline writers and columnists vie for the distinction of deriving the most pleasure from the administration’s failures. Pundits and journalists have made much of the legislation unpassed, the positions unfilled, the...
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Goodbye, Clinton!

Posted by on Jan 20, 2017 in Articles, Eastern Europe, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments Two days before the November elections, Elizabeth Moreno was driving to the Democratic Party headquarters in Manassas to pick up a list of addresses. She was planning to spend another day of canvassing to get out the vote for her candidate Hillary Clinton. Elizabeth had taken off a full week from her job at one of Washington’s premier foreign policy thinktanks to devote herself to electing the...
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Bartleby the American

Posted by on Nov 26, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments In my senior year of college, my Russian teacher pulled me aside. He told me that the CIA was recruiting on campus. I should consider applying for a job. It was 1986. Mikhail Gorbachev had taken the helm of the Soviet Union, but the Cold War was still very much in place. “The CIA?” I said. “Really?” “I know your politics,” my professor said. “But don’t you think it’s better for...
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It Can’t Happen Here (But It Just Did)

Posted by on Nov 26, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments In the typical time travel story, an enterprising person from the future goes back to 1922 to assassinate young Hitler, or to 1963 to interrupt Lee Harvey Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. This time, however, the smarter denizens of the future world didn’t save us from the horrors of the present. Instead, Donald Trump somehow got control of the time machine and used it for...
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Clinton and the Neocons

Posted by on Nov 26, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments Much has been made of the swing in political allegiances of neoconservatives in favor of Hillary Clinton. As a group, Washington’s neocons are generally terrified of Trump’s unpredictability and his flirtation with the alt-right. They also support Clinton’s more assertive foreign policy (not to mention her closer relationship to Israel). Perhaps, too, after eight long years in the...
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It’s Rigged: Takes One to Know One

Posted by on Nov 16, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments The system is rigged. Let’s be clear: the American political system favors the two major parties and our economic system favors the wealthy. The global system is similarly rigged in favor of powerful countries (such as the United States) and powerful economic actors (such as transnational corporations). This is not, however, a conspiracy. No secret group of Bilderburgers, Illuminati, Masons, or...
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