Would an impulsive Trump hit the nuclear button?
In the late 1980s, as the Cold War neared its end, a veteran Cold Warrior reminisced in Chicago about the nuclear button and the thinking of the men who controlled...
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Disaster zone: Trump’s Cabinet formula
Donald Trump, a businessman-turned-president-elect, is larding his Cabinet with business people-turned-public-servants. It's never worked, and it won't work now. Here's why: Business and government are two different disciplines. Success in...
Will America have a new role on the global stage?
For 70 years, the United States has overseen and guaranteed an unprecedented era of economic growth and peace around much of the world, for ourselves and our allies. With the...
Nobody loves a conspiracy theory more than Donald Trump
Twenty-five years ago, Pat Robertson, the televangelist and sometime Republican presidential candidate, published a book called "The New World Order," revealing a global conspiracy, stretching back centuries and financed by...
Trump’s poor grasp of NATO is dangerous
NATO is not just another business deal. Donald Trump doesn't understand this. But it definitely is a bargain. He doesn't get that either. There's a lot Trump doesn't know about...
An American dictatorship? Yes, it could happen
One thing that all Americans want to believe is that it can't happen here. But it can happen anywhere. It may be happening right now. "It" is the rise to...
Donald Trump doesn’t understand the art of the NATO deal
Nearly 50 years ago, at the height of the Cold War, former U.S. ambassador to NATO Harlan Cleveland wrote a book called "NATO: The Transatlantic Bargain." It still is a...
From one old man to another: Bernie Sanders, it’s time to go home
Bernie Sanders needs a friend. Sooner or later, all us old guys need one — a true pal to tell us that we had a good run but it's time...
A cautionary tale come November
Recently, I've been rereading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." In this political season, William L. Shirer's mammoth history of Hitler's Germany seems a useful guide to how...
How the ‘Trump effect’ is taking hold in Europe too
In Europe, they call it the "democratic deficit." In America, we could call it the "Trump effect." In both places, it's the feeling that people have lost control over their...