Earlier this month, Congress cut the purse strings to funding Covid-19 relief and response. The decision means money that provides free Covid tests, treatments and vaccines will quickly dry up. Already, states are shutting down…

Smoke and mirrors are hiding the real reason a proposed constitutional amendment to change the balance of power in Topeka will be on the November ballot. If approved, the law would allow Kansas legislators to…

President Joe Biden’s speech in Warsaw on Saturday movingly framed Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as a battle “between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.” Then Biden ad-libbed,…

Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month and the deliberate targeting of civilians by Russia’s military forces flagrantly violate both the laws of war that regulate a state’s right to engage in war and…

When Joe Biden was elected president in November 2020, few believed that he’d be some kind of a transformative figure. Instead, it seemed clear, he could be a sort of caretaker chief executive officer, someone…

Last week, the White House said the “the vast, vast majority” of Ukrainian refugees who have fled Vladimir Putin’s scorched-earth assault prefer to remain in Europe. Yet U.S. officials also reported that they were overwhelmed…

Madeleine Albright may have not coined the phrase “indispensable nation,” but she will always be associated with the concept. By the time she became Secretary of State in 1997, the United States had become a…

One reason dictators can remain in power is because they control the media.  Most Russians still have no idea that Vladimir Putin has declared war on Ukraine. Many Chinese are clueless about the human rights…

Like all cultural institutions, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has been under pressure to diversify its honorees, given the preponderance of old white guy rockers on its roster. So it turned to one…

Once again, NATO has proved it is far from obsolete. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization struggled in the years following the end of the Cold War to find its purpose and define its mission. The…