Who is your Representative working for? No fewer than ten members of the U.S. House of Representatives and ten members of the U.S. Senate are agents of the Russian Federation. Before I get around to naming names, I will establish my credentials. Before I turned to the academic route, I…

Who I am and who I want to be. If you are making the effort to read my words, I suppose I owe you an introduction. But where to begin? I suppose I could tell you I’m a retired professor of international relations. Retirement wasn’t my choice: I have Parkinson’s…

The January 6th investigation is going to the top Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States, is famous for four things. Garland has a passion for the law. His grandparents fled from Russia to America in the early 20th century, fleeing antisemitic pogroms. At his confirmation hearings for Attorney…

Everyone is feeling pain, but the UK is unique in its suffering From the start, the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union has been a financial and political disaster. And now, inflation has increased more there than in the United States and the European Union. Boris Johnson, who rode…

A move to correct the false narrative of the “lost cause” — To remove some vestiges of American dishonor, a Congressional commission has announced new names for several military bases. The old names for these bases are a relic of the Jim Crow era. The government named the bases in the first half of the 20th century when the myth of the…

Another step on the road to economic collapse — Russia has suffered the first major default on foreign debt since 1918, soon after the Bolshevik Revolution. Moody’s credit agency reports that sweeping sanctions have cut the country off from the global financial system. The default is primarily because of economic sanctions blocking financial transactions, not because the Russian government…