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After progressives, including self-described Democratic Socialists, won numerous primary victories in New York and elsewhere, Trump launched a whopper of a lie,…
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When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping walked side by side through the Temple of Heaven in May, the headlines went to Taiwan,…
As NATO leaders gather in Ankara on July 7-8, the alliance will again speak the language it has used for decades: unity,…
Absorbing the revelations in the book Regime Change by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, I posed a question to my American…
Some of the most peaceful moments of my life were spent standing on the deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier just…
With the collapse of the ceasefire with Iran, renewed American airstrikes, and widening cracks within the Western alliance dominating the headlines, the…
At the NATO summit in Ankara this week, President Trump told reporters he was “very disappointed” with the alliance over its members’…
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