The Russia Speech The President Should Have Given

Posting this two weeks after the speech, in an era of instant news, would seem a little OBE, except for articles like John Vinocur’s Central and Eastern European Countries Issue Rare Warning for U.S. on Russian Policy in today’s New York Times.  Mr. Vinocur, who really ought to know better, seems unaware that all the [...]

The Political Economy of Cowardice and the Russian Connection

Run yesterday in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.    Guest Columnist: The political economy of cowardice and the Russian connection ERIN SOLARO “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” So said Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1933 first inaugural address, in the depths of the Great Depression that American greed and excess had done [...]