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Column: Afghanistan peace negotiations move forward

March 23, 2021 at 3:09 p.m.

Serious, sensitive, tangled negotiations aimed at bringing peace to Afghanistan have now reached and surpassed the six-month mark. Many knowledgeable people are surprised, in some cases amazed, that these talks...

Column: Biden administration takes a sensible step regarding China

March 17, 2021 at 9:09 a.m.

The new Biden administration is taking first steps toward possible progress with China, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan meeting with counterparts Wang Yi...

Column: Containment, George Kennan and today’s world

March 10, 2021 at 7:38 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...

Protesters set up barricade during an anti-coup protest march in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 1, 2021. Defiant crowds returned to the streets of the country's biggest city on Monday, determined to continue their protests against the military's seizure of power a month ago, despite security forces having killed at least 18 people around the country just a day earlier. (AP Photo)

Column: Military takeover of Myanmar is news, not new

March 2, 2021 at 5:55 p.m.

"Myanmar coup poses test for Biden and the U.S." "First foreign policy test for President Biden." "Coup tests Biden's diplomacy strategies." On Feb. 1, the military in Myanmar (also known...

This Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 photo provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover lowered towards the surface of Mars during its powered descent. (NASA via AP)

Column: Success of Mars missions should animate Earth

February 24, 2021 at 6:31 a.m.

Mars 2020 is the latest, and in important ways most ambitious, of the space missions of the United States and a growing number of other nations. On Feb. 18, the...

In this photo taken from a footage provided by the Babuskinsky District Court Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures during a hearing on his charges for defamation in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. Navalny is accused of defaming a World War II veteran who was featured in a video last year advertising constitutional amendments that allowed an extension of President Vladimir Putin's rule. (Babuskinsky District Court Press Service via AP)

Column: The world is changing, but Russia is resisting

February 16, 2021 at 2:55 p.m.

As the New Year unfolds in Russia, popular demonstrations in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny are increasing, plaguing President Vladimir Putin and the privileged elite around him. They have...

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2016 file photo, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, front left, and the top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, Rodrigo Londono, known by the alias Timochenko, shake hands after signing the peace agreement between the government and the FARC to end over 50 years of conflict, in Cartagena, Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Column: Colombia confirms peace can succeed

February 10, 2021 at 8:01 a.m.

"Bullets wrote our past. Education, our future." On Jan. 28, 2021, the JEP (for Special Jurisdiction for Peace) in Colombia indicted eight FARC leaders for war crimes, and crimes against...

Column: Intelligence involves art along with science

February 2, 2021 at 2:56 p.m.

"Here is a book you should have, Mr. Director." With that, Jacqueline Kennedy handed CIA Director Allen Dulles a copy of "From Russia with Love" by Ian Fleming, the latest...

FILE - In this March 10, 2011, file photo, then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. Russia and the United States exchanged documents Tuesday Jan. 26, 2021, to extend the New START nuclear treaty, their last remaining arms control pact, the Kremlin said. The Kremlin readout of a phone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they voiced satisfaction with the move. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Column: The nuclear genie and averting Armageddon

January 27, 2021 at 8:06 a.m.

"Disarmament ... is a continuing imperative." That public statement is not from an ideologue of the political left, but by outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address to...

FILE - In this March 21, 2016, file photo, Cuban President Raul Castro, right, lifts up the arm of President Barack Obama at the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

Column: Re-demonization of Cuba is a mistake

January 21, 2021 at 9:37 a.m.

The outgoing Trump Administration returned Cuba to the State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism. That is a strategic mistake. The move may help Republican Party domestic support, but...

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