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The framers of the constitution looked to Rome for guidance. Not to build an empire but to avoid one. Results have been mixed.

Thoughts on the US Syria gambit - and game theory.

Zarif makes a persuasive argument. On the other hand, not trusting people further than you can throw them is no reason not to like them.

On the gulf’s east bank sits Iran, baring its teeth at Saudi Arabia and doing a fair job of conquest-by-internal-rot of Iraq.

“Run and find out.” Motto of all the Mongoose family Rudyard Kipling Rikki-tikki-tavi November 2012: I was starting to sweat. It was a...