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Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 23, 2018, 12:08 AM

This happened in the two-hour Trump-Putin meeting

Smart and sweet people alike try to find out or think up what the hell was discussed and agreed upon in the two-hour meeting between the US and Russian presidents. There are a lot of guessing and nonstarter ideas,...

Sara Y. Sapadin

Jul 22, 2018, 8:58 PM

Double Negatives and the Crisis of Moral Leadership

According to Dictionary.com, a double negative is defined as a “syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.” I never thought I would start a sermon with an introduction...

Anthony S. Pitch

Jul 20, 2018, 11:42 PM

The turncoat president

After Trump betrayed America at the Helsinki press conference we have to wonder whether the “eyes only” daily briefings from intelligence chiefs have now been sanitized to withhold portions from the president. Can they trust him now with secret, classified...

Joanna M. Saidel

Jul 20, 2018, 6:56 AM

The Russians are here to stay

Rumor has it that an agreement has been reached between Trump, Putin and Netanyahu to cede the northern border area between Israel and Syria to Russia. It was reported in both the Israeli and Egyptian press that one of...

Joseph C. Kaplan

Jul 19, 2018, 11:01 PM

Supremely Dismaying

My nephew Moshe, now a partner in a major multinational law firm, clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court during the October 2008 term. Whatever personal opinions members of our family held about Justice Scalia’s...

Jul 19, 2018, 11:00 PM

Defending Donald Trump – Part Two

In my blog of July 17th, I presented what I thought was a reasoned, factually-supported defence of Donald Trump’s record. Unsurprisingly, I received a great deal of negative feedback, mostly along the lines of ‘if you support Trump, you...

Jul 19, 2018, 7:14 AM

When Buzzwords Are All You Have

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is the newest superstar of the American left. Last month, during a Democratic Party primary election for a seat in the United Stated House of Representatives from New York, she toppled longtime incumbent Joe Crowley. Ocasio Cortez...

Jul 18, 2018, 10:56 PM

Do as I do, not as I say. Trump’s saving grace?

By now, even life forms on other planets must know about the mess Donald Trump made at the end-of-summit news conference with Russian president, and KGB alumnus and thug emeritus, Vladimir Putin. A summit that never should have taken...

Jul 17, 2018, 5:33 PM

A Canadian Who Supports Donald Trump

I live in Canada where our governing Liberal Party makes the US Democratic party seem downright alt-right by comparison. Even our Conservative Party would be considered left-of-center by American standards so it should come as no surprise that my...

Kashish Parpiani

Jul 15, 2018, 7:24 PM

Trump’s Exemptionalist US Foreign Policy

President Donald J. Trump participates in the multilateral meeting of the North Atlantic Council | July 11, 2018 (Official White House photograph by Shealah Craighead)

Under President Trump, the United States seems to adopting an unprecedented antagonistic stance against the institutions, commitments, and unpronounced precedents alike, of the liberal world order that the US itself put in place in the aftermath of the Second...

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