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Returning from meeting British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Yalta in February 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took a...
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Nigeria is an African giant. Its population of 220 million people is more than that of the two largest African countries—Ethiopia and Egypt—combined. Although Nigeria...
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My final assignment in the U.S. Navy was as President of the Board of Inspection and Survey and, while it is a bit of an oversimplification,...
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When a Colombian-born American judge presided over the corrupt criminal trial of a U.S. president for the first time in history, many Americans couldn’t...
Ukraine War
The Republican concern with China’s threat to America is understandable, arguably even laudable, as many of China’s economic, security, and human rights policies do, in fact, challenge...
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The State Department Operations Center called me in the middle of the night 34 years ago this summer – August 2, 1990 – to...
Dollars and Sense
Back in 2016, Donald Trump’s presidency beckoned for the extreme before a vote was even cast. He took fringe elements of our society—those motivated...
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Sometimes, moral clarity is easy. On the one hand, U.S. President Joe Biden attended the NATO Summit. NATO, and America’s network of allies and...
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Joe Biden Is Making America Less Safe: Many political debates come down to one line. President Gerald Ford’s declaration that “There is no Soviet domination...