Foreign Affairs, Drinks, & Other Ill-Advised Adventures

Vladimir Putin's is gambling that the West is too distracted by China to stop him. We need to understand whose team he's on.

The Year Ahead: Prepare for a Bipolar world.

Just how pagan is Christmas - actually not very.

China's hypersonic gliders are clever, and problematic.

This year's elections have been a surprise in the US. In Nicaragua, less so.

The Taliban is now facing a civil war with the Islamic State in Afghanistan. It's going to be a long one.

Gin Mania, William and Mary's Famine Relief and that damned pussy...

Great Game Theory: Making Global Domination Fun & Stylish.

Chinese real estate, moral hazards, and the dozen years it took Murff to be right.

France is in grand furie over the Australian nuclear submarines. Of course it's our fault.

An argument for a humanitarian foreign policy.

The fall of Kabul will be easy to ignore, the retreat of Latin American democracy won't be.

We missed our John Wayne moment this time.

Whether we left 10 years ago, or stayed another 20, this was always going to happen. It didn't have to happen like this.

Tunisia was the only Arab Spring country to make it to the podium. Can they keep it?

After 20 years and $2 trillion, the US is quitting Afghanistan in roughly the same place we found it.

Democracy sounds great, and works better than anything else we've come up with to run the shop - but it's no autopilot.

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside of enigma." It still is, but it may not be our riddle.

The US and the reshuffling of the Great Game.

Father's Day in Managua - beautiful scenery, social unrest and government violence.