Damage control Bipartisan support for Israel is a source of pride in Congress, US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said in a meeting with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday. “It is a privilege to talk about the importance of the US-Israel bond, one based on our...
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News Roundup 9/22/21
Venezuela Venezuela says a Colombian drone flew into its airspace. [Link] Great Power Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen Mark Milley will hold talks with his Russian counterpart on risk mitigation. [Link] Rep. Mike Rogers placed a widely support amendment into the NDAA...
Resistance Is Futile: How The War On Terror Supercharged State Power
“What,” I sometimes ask students in a class I teach on the history of terrorism, “was the name of the Islamic State’s branch in Europe?” It is a trick question: the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) never set up a full-fledged European branch. The group’s...
An Open Letter to the Person Who Gave Me COVID
To the Person Who Gave Me the Virus: I have no idea who you are, but our paths almost surely crossed last month in Las Vegas. Even now I wouldn't change a thing about that trip, by the way, which was a blast. The existence of the virus, it's true, made my life a...
8/4/21 Daniel Larison: What Nord Stream 2 Means for NATO Expansion
Scott and Daniel Larison discuss the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and what it means for America's stance toward Eastern Europe. The main issue with the German pipeline, Larison explains, is that it will allow Western Europe to buy Russian natural gas without having to deal...
Those Who Make the Sacrifice Should Decide if America Goes to War
This article was originally published in The Gazette out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa on September 1, 1939, the day Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Major General Smedley Butler spent 34 years in the U.S. Marines where he participated in fighting in China, Mexico, Nicaragua,...
Consent of the Governed?
What gives some people the right to rule others? At least since John Locke’s time, the most common and seemingly compelling answer has been “the consent of the governed.” When the North American revolutionaries set out to justify their secession from the British...
News Roundup 7/5/21
US News A 76-year-old woman was released from jail on home confinement during the covid pandemic. She attended a class and didn’t answer a call from her parole officer. She was rearrested and will be sent to federal prison. [Link] The government plans to remove the...
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