Buy a Harley and ride a piece of American mythology.

America and Europe retain decisive advantages in the contest for global affluence and influence.

An authoritarian Russia and a still-evolving EU federal democracy bring out the worst in each other.

Today’s European Union is yesterday’s Austro-Hungarian Empire on the gameboard of world politics.

NATO is obsolete; the Atlantic world is anything but.

Watching Vice President Cheney in Tbilisi today pledging US support for Georgia’s territorial integrity, it is impossible not to fear that the United States is, with total recklessness, repeating the same tragic mistake that it made with regard to Hungary in 1956. As Charles Gati pointed out in his recent book Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, […]

Watching Vice President Cheney in Tbilisi today pledging US support for Georgia’s territorial integrity, it is impossible not to fear that the United States is, with total recklessness, repeating the same tragic mistake that it made with regard to Hungary in 1956. As Charles Gati pointed out in his recent book Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, […]

Downsize U.S. policy to match U.S. influence.

The growth of grief in a changing culture.

Preparing for the end of the Hosni Mubarak era.