In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an
Our alliance with our NATO partners has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for nearly 70 years, in good times and in bad and through presidents of both parties because the
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The ruling class of the United States, severed from a fact-based universe and blinded by idiocy, greed and hubris, has immolated the internal mechanisms that prevent dictatorship, and the external mechanisms designed
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Roger Berkowitz’s keynote at The PolyOpportunity Retreat, Garrison Institute, Hudson Valley, NY, April 13, 2025. This was first published in Beauty Shot It’s a real pleasure to be here. Bard College is
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Following Sheikh Hasina’s removal from the position of Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus assumed leadership of a non-partisan interim government. His strategy for political survival involved forming alliances with Islamist parties
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Editor’s Note: The following essay has been adapted from Britain’s Secret Propaganda War by Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, published in 1999. The book is the first comprehensive account of the Foreign
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It all makes more sense when I’m out here alone,” he smiled. “I can talk myself into anything.”― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides As the world edges toward 2026, it is tempting
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The World in 2025 In 2025, the global civil aviation system was once again reminded of the inescapable reality that the skies, while governed by law and sustained by international cooperation, are
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Brigitte Bardot’s death, at the age of 91, brings to a close one of the most extraordinary careers in post-war French cultural life. Best known as an actress, she was also a singer,
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At the start of the 20th century, the British Empire was, like our own, in terminal decline. Sixty percent of Englishmen were physically unfit for military service, as are 77 percent of American
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By now some readers of this column may be watching or planning to watch Cover-Up, the documentary on my career by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus now playing in theaters and streaming beginning
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“When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to
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On December 19, 2025, an Army Major was attacked and injured when his vehicle was intercepted by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists while travelling from Quetta to Islamabad, in the Draban area of
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As 2025 slumbers toward its end, there are tentative signs of life in our constitutional republic. Few — certainly not I — would have predicted that the first stirrings of congressional resistance
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In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over a 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more
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Editor’s note: The following essay is based on a speech delivered recently by Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland, at the Bank of Finland’s biannual lunch for EU Heads of
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