What the Coronavirus Says About Us

Posted by on Mar 25, 2020 in Articles, China, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments A crisis, according to self-help and leadership books, reveals much about a person’s character. The same can be said of a nation’s character. Since the latest pandemic began to spread out of China in 2020, countries responded in very different ways to the challenge. There was ingenuity, inflexibility, incomprehension, and sheer incompetence. Diversity can be a beautiful thing. But not when it...
read more

The President as Political Hit Man

Posted by on Mar 25, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Donald Trump filed his paperwork to run for reelection only hours after his inauguration in January 2017, setting a presidential record, the first of his many dubious achievements. For a man who relished the adulation and bombast of campaigning, it should have surprised no one that he charged out of the starting gate so quickly for 2020 as well. After all, he’d already spent much of the...
read more

Will the Coronavirus Kill Globalization?

Posted by on Mar 25, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments At a dinner party in mid-February, an architect told me that he was having a problem finishing his building projects. It was the carpets. Most wall-to-wall carpeting for big construction projects in the United States, he explained, comes from China. The coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan — and the subsequent shutdown of many Chinese factories — was having a ripple effect across the global economy...
read more

Cleaning Up Trump’s Global Mess

Posted by on Mar 17, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The next presidential election will not likely hinge on foreign policy. Americans will go to the polls in November to express their fervent support, or disgust, for Donald Trump. The candidates’ positions on the issues — on any issues — matter only to a dwindling number of voters who have somehow managed, over the last three years, to remain undecided about the current president’s fitness...
read more

America’s Coronavirus: Containing the Outbreak of Trumpism

Posted by on Feb 9, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The epicenter of China’s coronavirus outbreak is widely thought to be a wet market in Wuhan. At such markets, seafood, chicken, and other conventional foodstuffs are on sale alongside live animals. You can buy more than just dogs and cats there. Local epicures also shop for more exotic fare like foxes, badgers, civets, and snakes. The coronavirus is a pathogen that jumps from animals to humans....
read more

Trump: Make Space Great Again

Posted by on Feb 9, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments With a stroke of a pen, Donald Trump created an entirely new branch of the armed forces last year. It’s the first new branch of the U.S. military since 1947. The Space Force is not exactly a new idea. It’s a revival of a Reagan-era initiative that had been set up to oversee missile defense, which the George W. Bush administration repurposed after 9/11 to focus on the war in Afghanistan. Yet...
read more