Doomsday Clock Sweeps Forward At End of Trump’s First Week

Doomsday Clock Sweeps Forward At End of Trump’s First Week
Doomsday Clock Sweeps Forward At End of Trump’s First Week

WASHINGTON: A disruptive leader disrupts. Large and fast disruptions of the global order rarely portend happier times and that would seem to be the case as the first week of the Trump Administration comes to an end. “For the first time in the 70-year history of the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science…

Pope Leaves, Boehner Resigns, Shutdown Looms…

Pope Leaves, Boehner Resigns, Shutdown Looms…
Pope Leaves, Boehner Resigns, Shutdown Looms…

WASHINGTON: Speaker John Boehner, that always-tanned, often crying fellow who has led House Republicans since 2010, appears to have given up after new challenges from fiscal radicals in the Republican Party and announced his resignation this morning. Boehner, a Catholic, campaigned for 20 years to bring a Pope to Congress. Yesterday he got his wish and…

The Pope Boasts Many (Unarmed) Divisions, Great Intel

The Pope Boasts Many (Unarmed) Divisions, Great Intel
The Pope Boasts Many (Unarmed) Divisions, Great Intel

WASHINGTON: The Vatican remains one of the world’s great powers. Pope Francis can’t deploy divisions, so Stalin might dismiss him and his organization. However, I’ve never forgotten a comment by Doug Simon, one of my Drew University political science professors at a semester I spent studying the United Nations. “Who do you think has the best intelligence organization in…