| Oct 31, 2012 | Peace / SecurityOur next commander-in-chief will, as President Barack Obama joked during his final debate with Mitt Romney, spend little time fretting about the nation’s bayonet arsenal or herds of battle-ready horses. Instead, the White House will confront serious...
| Aug 13, 2012 | Peace / Security“Doomsday!” “Taxmageddon!” “Catastrophe!” Next year will begin with both a bang and a whimper unless Congress can escape its apparently hopeless deadlock. Unless our lawmakers get their act together, there will be the equivalent of...
| May 28, 2012 | Peace / SecurityNegotiators from the United States, the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council, and Germany recently met with an Iranian team in Baghdad to discuss Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Although there’s still a long road ahead, this resumed...
| Mar 12, 2012 | Peace / SecurityFollowing years of deadlock, the United States and North Korea finally struck a deal in late February. But it raises questions about whether this is a step in the right director or another North Korean ploy to gain concessions. Perhaps both. It all depends on whether...
| Dec 26, 2011 | Peace / SecurityLed by Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Congress moved recently to place new sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran. Certainly, the United States must remain active in its efforts to deter Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program, but these...
