Rural Illinois: Where DC’s Big Ideas come home to roost.

Americans’ fear of domestic terrorism belies reality.

The UN Human Rights Council is worse than its predecessor.

Notes from a travelin’ man.

It’s time to end the “war” on terror.

Diplomacy cannot create the conditions for its own success.

Critiquing the above-proposed U.S.-Afghanistan defense treaty, and an alternative.

An argument for a U.S.-Afghanistan defense treaty

Religion in public schools doesn’t have to be divisive.

Talking about Afghanistan with Zbigniew Brzezinski.