1491 – The Atlantic
A long article about what the “New World” that Columbus discovered may really have been like, versus what we were taught in school. Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly...
View ArticleEurope’s New Medieval Map – WSJ
As the EU continues to fracture, this power vacuum could create a 21st-century equivalent of the late Holy Roman Empire: a rambling, multiethnic configuration that was an empire in name but not in...
View ArticleWhy Trump and Sanders
What do Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have in common? – an authoritarian agenda. The rise of Donald Trump has been accompanied by predictable murmurs of “only in America”. But the Trump phenomenon...
View ArticleHow a Solar Flare Almost Triggered a Nuclear War in 1967
On May 23, 1967, multiple radar installations in the Arctic suddenly and inexplicably went dark.The U.S. military believed the Soviets had managed to disable the Early Warning System. With war...
View ArticleA Brave New World Order
Japan had the first world leader to meet with President-elect Trump. For the first time in eleven years, Putin just visited Japan for two days of talks. Trump’s proposed Secretary of State was awarded...
View ArticleBill Perry Is Terrified. Why Aren’t You?
When I was a child, I often had nightmares that ended in a blinding nuclear flash. I became an evangelist for building basement fallout shelters and actually convinced one neighbor to build and stock...
View ArticleDestined for War: Can China and the United States Escape Thucydides’s Trap? –...
War, however, is not inevitable. Four of the 16 cases in our review did not end in bloodshed. Those successes, as well as the failures, offer pertinent lessons for today’s world leaders. Escaping the...
View ArticleThe Paris Terror Attacks Remind Us That ISIS Needs Our Help to Survive –...
But that’s the thing with globalization: it engulfs frontiers, reformatting local cultures at a disorienting speed. Alongside all those networks arrive unprecedented economic opportunities that have –...
View ArticleHappy New Year – From ISIS to Russia: How War Changed in 2015 – The Atlantic
From China in Asia to Russia in Europe and the Middle East, and ISIS just about everywhere, 2015 has seen the flourishing of conflicts that exist in a gray zone, one which is not quite open war but...
View ArticleThe Developing World Thinks Hitler Is Underrated
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/05/the-developing-world-thinks-hitler-is-underrated-duterte-world-war-ii-nazi-politics/ Yet in much of the developing world, where ignorance regarding the Holocaust and...
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