Diplomacy, to put it mildly, is an incredibly tough and often thankless business. Negotiating with an adversary can often feel like “mission impossible,” an exercise in futility where the only result after hours of jaw-boning is high blood pressure and an overpowering migraine. While Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad doesn’t show it, it’s highly likely that his […]

The notion of history repeating itself is usually viewed as a negative statement, but some history is worth repeating because we might learn and be guided by it. In last week’s 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court rejecting the Trump administration’s claim that adding a question about whether a person is a U.S. citizen was […]

Killing coyotes to protect deer? It’s a practice that has been imbedded in Maine’s wildlife management policies for more than three decades, but it has led to grotesque abuses of this important carnivore and is as foolish as stringing beads on a cord with no knot on the end. The now dominant view of experts […]