Last Friday, President Trump reaffirmed the US commitment to Article 5 of NATO, which commits the US to come to the defense of any other NATO member. Trump's decision is in keeping with the US's traditional position on the topic. However, it is somewhat at odds with...
Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, the New York Times‘s Josh Katz reports. In 2016, overdoses claimed somewhere between 59,000 and 65,000 lives. That’s more American lives than were lost in the Vietnam war. It’s 20 times the...
Trump confirms the US is committed to NATO's mutual defense pact. The defense pact is known as Article 5 and requires all NATO countries to come to the defense of a NATO country that gets attacked. [Link] Trump says Qatar has a funded terrorism at a high level and he...
To wrap up my discussion on using arbitration instead of war, I'll offer a concrete example of how it would work. I've repeatedly mentioned the situation in the South China Sea, so I'll use that in this example. Arbitration can succeed in this scenario if it can...
