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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg displays documents as Sweden and Finland applied for membership in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday May 18, 2022. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the military alliance stands ready to seize a historic moment and move quickly on allowing Finland and Sweden to join its ranks, after the two countries submitted their membership requests. (Johanna Geron, Pool via AP)

Column: Finland and Sweden in NATO will further isolate Russia

May 18, 2022 at 7:11 a.m.

"What about the rest of the North?" asked McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation, back in the 1970s. Following policy, he and the other officers were considering yet one...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives with his dog Dilyn to vote at a polling station in London, for local council elections, Thursday, May 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Column: British vote mixed, but Boris Johnson is besieged

May 10, 2022 at 10:09 a.m.

"The Liberal Democrats won a huge haul of more than 200 net seat gains." That is how The Guardian in Britain described the local elections on May 5. The long-established...

In this handout photo released by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Plesetsk in Russia's northwest. Russia said on Wednesday it had conducted a first test launch of its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, a new and long-awaited addition to its nuclear arsenal which President Vladimir Putin said would make Moscow's enemies stop and think. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service via AP)

Column: Nuclear weapons remain a terrifying possibility in Ukraine war

May 4, 2022 at 7:27 a.m.

"In any case, the Americans would not respond disproportionately." Peggy Noonan, respected and influential columnist for The Wall Street Journal, made that statement regarding the possibility that Russia will use...

French President Emmanuel Macron thumbs up after reports of his reelection Sunday, April 24, 2022 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to comfortably win reelection Sunday in a runoff, polling agencies projected, offering France and the European Union the reassurance of leadership stability in the bloc's only nuclear-armed power as the continent grapples with the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Column: France election results reassuring in troubled times

April 27, 2022 at 7:11 a.m.

The reelection of President Emmanuel Macron of France is an exceptionally important event. This result overall is positive for the stability of Europe, Atlantic area relations and international relations generally. Above all,...

FILE - Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Twitter said in a statement Friday, April 15, 2022, that its board of directors has unanimously adopted a "poison pill" defense in response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposal to buy the company and take it private. (Patrick Pleul/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Column: Elon Musk advocates freedom, and he’s right

April 20, 2022 at 7:17 a.m.

"Big Brother is watching you." That was the pervasive punch line in British writer George Orwell's novel "1984." Developments in business and government give fresh currency to the classic. Orwell,...

FILE - In this photo taken from video and released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, the Russian navy's missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov sails off for an exercise in the Arctic. With Russia carrying out a massive military buildup near Ukraine and the West roundly rejecting Moscow's security demands, a window for diplomacy in the crisis appears to be closing. But even as Moscow continues to bolster its forces and holds sweeping war games, President Vladimir Putin is keeping the window open for more negotiations in a calculated game of brinkmanship intended to persuade Washington and its allies to accept Russia's demands. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Column: Complacency no longer an option when it comes to Russia’s intentions in the Arctic

April 13, 2022 at 7:57 a.m.

"America and Britain play cold-war games with Russia in the Arctic." That headline sums up a situation growing steadily more ominous. The message is not current, but rather from two...

FILE - Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, before she christened the nuclear aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va., on Dec. 7, 2019. President Joe Biden has announced he's nominating Kennedy, who served as ambassador to Japan during the Obama administration, to serve as ambassador to Australia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Column: Biden’s nomination of Caroline Kennedy highlights Australia’s importance

April 6, 2022 at 9:28 a.m.

President Joe Biden has nominated Caroline Bouvier Kennedy to serve as United States ambassador to Australia. Earlier, she served as our ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017, where she...

An apartment building explodes after a Russian army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Column: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reminds us the world is a difficult and dangerous place

March 30, 2022 at 7:06 a.m.

"We must formulate and put forward for other nations a much more positive and constructive picture ... than we have put forward in the past." This is from the famous...

FILE - Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP, File)

Column: As COVID threat fades, a very serious economic health problem has arrived — inflation

March 22, 2022 at 4:33 p.m.

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors has finally raised interest rates. On March 16, the central bank announced interest on reserve funds would be .4%. Bank currency transactions will keep...

A TV screen shows presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party, left, and Yoon Suk-yeol of the main opposition People Power Party during a presidential debate at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Column: Despite nasty campaign, South Korean voters reconfirm merits of law-abiding democracy

March 16, 2022 at 10:23 a.m.

South Korea's voters have elected Yoon Suk-yeol of the conservative People Power Party their next leader. He will take office in May, succeeding President Moon Jae-in, after defeating Lee Jae-myung...

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