Jordan Michael Smith

@WriterJMS

Putin alone is to blame for the war in Ukraine. Still, some opponents of NATO expansion were strikingly prescient.

Putin is Hitler. Biden is weak. Trump was strong. Let’s nuke ’em. Yadda yadda yadda. Here’s hoping the president isn’t listening to this nonsense.

Yes, the Russian leader is an authoritarian aggressor. But different decisions at key points by the U.S. might have made him less so.

That’s what some foreign policy pundits would have us believe, as Biden and Putin spar over Russia’s mounting threats to its neighbor.

Our foreign policy wise people responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by embracing belligerence. What, if anything, have they learned?

Biden is convening a Summit for Democracy among friendly nations in December. It will only make China and Russia more hostile.

There’s a nationwide organ shortage, but how long patients wait for a transplant can depend on how much money they have.

Norman Finkelstein was a rock star of the pro-Palestinian movement. Then he came out against BDS.

An interview with the authors of an enormous new study of generosity

Reaganites called him a terrorist and a phony

Will Kentucky finally give non-death row prisoners the right to test old evidence?