Brattleboro Reformer

  • This is the fourth in a series of articles on key foreign policy challenges for the next U.S. president.  The articles will continue between now and the general election on 5 November 2024.  In a 2023 essay in the journal Foreign Affairs, Jake Sullivan, the U.S. National Security Advisor, described America’s current relationship with China…

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  • Fifty years ago this month Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace as President of the United States, before likely being impeached in the wake of the Watergate scandal.  The corruption at the highest level of the American government contributed to a nascent loss of trust by a significant portion of the populace in their elected leaders,…

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  • This is the third article in a series on key foreign policy challenges for the next U.S. president. The series will continue between now and the elections on 5 November.  In his influential 1992 work – The End of History and the Last Man, on the logical progression of social and governmental structures to the…

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  • Lost in the glow of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy, the 83rd commemoration on 22 June of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, codename Operation Barbarossa, went virtually unnoticed in the United States. While much credit for defeating the Nazi war machine is understandably given to the American, British, and…

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