Weekly analysis of everything from the state of American democracy to the state of the world and U.S. foreign policy.
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Welcome to Home & Away. I will start with the Air Force One story, the most important dimension of which, from a policy perspective, is whether the United States should be in the business of targeting or assassinating leaders of other countries.
Welcome to Home & Away. We’ll begin with Iran, but as will become clear, there is no shortage of other topics to cover this week.
Welcome to Home & Away. I will keep this edition short as July is about to end and we all want to get on with enjoying (as much as we can) the second half of summer.
Welcome to Home & Away. There is a lot (one might say too much) going on for what are meant to be the sleepy days of summer. Even an abbreviated list would include Canadian wildfires and intense storms that remind us that as much as we might want to ignore climate change, it will not ignore us;
Welcome to this special edition of Home & Away, one stimulated by a recent piece in The New York Times by David Sanger, “Bombing and a Tentative Accord Didn’t Work.
Welcome to Home & Away. I know I said I’d be taking some time off from writing this newsletter so I could focus on other projects, but then things started happening. I identify (up to a point) with Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
Welcome to Home & Away. It was another eventful week, but then every week is eventful, it seems.
Welcome to Home & Away. It has been an eventful week by any measure, as even this partial list underscores:
Welcome to Home & Away. The big news again is the Iran War, as we now have the memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreed to and signed by the United States and Iran.
Welcome to Home & Away. It’s been quite a week. The Russia-Ukraine war, finally turning in favor of the latter, has now gone on longer than World War I. And then there’s the extraordinary account in The New York Times of how the White House Situation Room, normally a venue reserved for sober, highly classified conversations on national security, became ground zero for, shall we say, graphic…
