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…that the truth is seldom black and white, and to mitigate the folly of the French in trusting them. Money today, in the United States and elsewhere, is not backed by any commodity. It is “government fiat money” backed by the taxing power of government. That may be Chapter 1: Reco...

….” (George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower, sit down!) But if there is an idea animating his candidacy, it is that the United States is being badly beaten by its economic competitors. In his speech on foreign policy this week, Trump explained that America is being bested by coun...

38 emerged after World War II — the United States and the Soviet Union — were engaged in an intense struggle for the eastern Mediterranean after World War II, as can be seen in the Greek and Turkish issues at that time. Neither wanted to see the British Empire survive, each want...

…mann Dick is an American-born soprano and a recipient of two double lung transplants. Charity has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia in venues as diverse as the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Severance Ha...

…lson, in 1996. Before it could expand its espionage capabilities, it needed to build a network of Russian agents in the United States. For this network, it needed to groom so-called illegals, or agents who were not connected to the Russian embassy. This so-called illegals network...

…tions here or any confidential information, but on December 30th, I was aware that one of the preeminent lawyers in the United States, David Boies, had agreed to represent Virginia Roberts. And given the vast amount of business that -- that, you know, tries to get in the door --...

Middle East Affairs, and four years later the United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte. “Why are you so strident,” Shamir asked me, only half-jokingly, after ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read th...

…quarter of the 22 million population has been displaced, hundreds of thousands of refugees have left the country. The United States has been supporting the opposition, supplying it with food and medical aid, but refraining from military intervention and from providing the rebel...

…eas the situation of the Arabs under Israeli occupation (or indeed, in Israel itself) is virtually a taboo topic in the United States.” The Zionism-racism resolution was ultimately rescinded in 1991 by a vote of the General Assembly, but it continued to animate U.N. actions, esp...

…s a president who prefers the Assads to the possibility of chaos. They realize that the measures taken until now by the United States and Europe have been relatively gentle, therefore wholly ineffective. Add to that the U.N. Security Council’s recent failure to condemn Syria and...

…ced by militant Islamic ideology that will make them less likely to engage in security or military cooperation with the United States. Democracy optimists argue that these ideological regimes, once entrenched in power, will have to moderate their zeal in order to govern. Pragmat...

…o defeat any of the Arab armies, even if they launched a joint attack as in 1973. Our most important overseas ally, the United States, was committed to helping us retain that position — what both we and they called Israel’s “qualitative edge” — in the interest of our security and...

the United States and its Western allies should not be shy about working with reformers and democrats to shape the region’s trajectory — and ensuring Al Qaeda’s irrelevance in the Sunni Arab world

…ough the flotilla, that Israel has no right to control the fate of Palestinians.” Several months after the Exodus, the United Nations General Assembly voted for the establishment of two states in Palestine, Jewish and Arab, the key diplomatic moment in Israel’s history. The HOU...

…better living conditions for the world as a whole but worse living conditions at the individual level in Europe and the United States. This new world order is the culprit for the nationalism seen across these regions. Conceptualizing the Internet In “The True Believer” Eric Hoffe...