How Donald Trump Will Unravel the Global Order and Weaken America
In 2016, I was working in Kampala when Donald Trump was elected president. The next morning, my Ugandan Military Intelligence…
Category: Politics
ASEAN’s Kosovo Moment and the South–South Reset Opportunity
Despite Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia over 16 years ago, the Indonesian city of Jakarta remains the sole…
Democracy is in Decline. The Mechanics of Changing the World Offers a Way Out
John Macgregor’s The Mechanics of Changing the World is a ten-part, comprehensive analysis of the shortcomings of current democratic structures.…
The Issue of One Islam
[This is the second part of an ongoing series. To read more, see Part 1 here.] Caffè Italiano: The two meet…
Trump’s War on Birthright Citizenship
Like father, like son. In 1927, as America struggled with its latest massive surge of non-Protestant and non-English or non-German…
Fighting Islamophobia with Islamofactism: A New 10-Part Series
A weaponized word can darken and even destroy those who fall within its umbra and penumbra. In fact, prior to…
Can ASEAN Afford Silence on Russia’s New Eurasian Playbook?
In July 2025, Russia became the first country to formally recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government, an audacious diplomatic move that shifts…
From Democratic Stronghold to Far-Right Alliance
Once a bastion of European unity and a champion of centrist democracy, the European People’s Party (EPP) is undergoing a…
The Challenging Path to Reviving US Deterrence
What America wouldn’t give to turn back the clock to February 23, 2022, and make a bold, controversial and possibly…
How the Trump Administration Wields the Federal Government’s Power Over Public Education
The US Supreme Court’s July 14 decision to allow President Donald Trump and his Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, to…