Some thoughts on US foreign policy 100 days into the Iran War. https://www.c-span.

While I have been watching the fever over “Heated Rivalry” dramatically rise throughout many channels of social media (though I have yet to see the series — soon!), I have just re-read Gore Vidal’s “The City and the Pillar.

The Government Shutdown is about to end. Here is the Democratic thinking on direction, strategy, and who can tick off wins, and who loses (from their perspective): There will be a vote soon ending the shutdown. It will extend funding until January 31. It will include three small appropriations bills

Anticipating that someone on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party would eventually ask about the independence, or lack thereof, of DeepSeek, which now as a generative AI platform seems to be spreading faster than Covid-19 did, I decided to ask both DeepSeek and ChatGPT the same question: Does the Central Committee of…

This holiday, for the first time ever, I am giving some presentations on the world’s geopolitical and geo-economic fault lines on the really terrific Regent Seven Seas Explorer traveling between Australia and New Zealand.

The debate around President Joe Biden’s ability to vigorously take on a second political battle with former President Donald Trump is over. President Biden, as he expresses in the note above, is withdrawing from the election and will focus on serving out his term.

Big city. Little village. A bus driver in New York City near Columbia University beckoned to a man running on the street whom he had just seen bludgeoned in the head to hurry and get on to his bus.

I am posting one of two documents that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer distributed on January 18, 2022 to some Democratic Senate colleagues preceding the debate on the Voting Rights Act of 2021.