As President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has starkly illustrated “the battle between democracy and autocracy,” and new...
Most of the time I think that some of the things that political scientists and smart journalists are teaching are getting through. And then, sometimes, we get something l...
The first rule for being a “servant of the people” should be that the people make the rules.
The pompous “candidates’ for governor of Pennsylvania who released their own...
Cybersecurity experts have been puzzled by the absence of a major cyberattack from Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for crippling sanction...
I still don’t know if Alina has made it out of Mariupol, or whether she is alive.
When Russian bombs pummeled the Ukrainian city three weeks ago, I lost contact with my s...
In April 1961, a family sat around a kitchen table in Western Pennsylvania and listened to a special radio broadcast. President John F. Kennedy was addressing the nation ...
Evil, when it knocks on the door, when it walks in the room, when it surrounds us and smiles at its likely victory, is one of the worst things in life. Still, we are seei...
Once again, NATO has proved it is far from obsolete.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization struggled in the years following the end of the Cold War to find its purpose a...
How important are the coaches of high school sports teams?
Recent announcements of coaching being given state and national awards have given us pause to consider the rol...
Russia’s war in Ukraine has taught the world’s autocrats some useful lessons:
Invasions may be harder than they look.
It’s unwise to go to war with an army that hasn’t ha...
