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Editorials and columns

Iran’s Most Powerful Weapon

Three weeks into a military engagement in Iran, a war Republicans will not call a war, the American and Israeli militaries have all but wiped out Iran's capacity to make war. We have killed their leadership, the replacement leaders and militia members on the ground. We have destroyed their ...

Trump’s War Psychology

Two weeks after the start of the Iran War, the picture is coming into focus. Why would a president who promised countless times not to start new wars have leapt into this conflict? As always in the age of Trump, it's necessary to separate the president's motives and mindset from the old ways we ...

This Is No Longer Dysfunction — It Is Danger

When a Transportation Security Administration official warns that airports could "quite literally shut down," we are no longer talking about inconvenience, delays or political theater. We are talking about vulnerability in one of the most sensitive and critical systems in our country. Aviation ...

The gender gap on Iran

There's a reason the Good Lord created men and women. So that years later political pollsters could do research on the gender gap. You have heard of this phenomenon that has fascinated everyone as the gap reflects just how different the sexes are especially when it comes to politics which ...

Checklist Christianity

When I was a little kid, I would often go to the grocery store with my mom to shop for that week’s groceries. I remember that the most important item for the shopping trip was the grocery list that she would carry with her in her hand once we got into the store. But, before we ever left ...