Mark Meirowitz

The COVID-19 pandemic, followed by Russia’s war against Ukraine, have delivered a one-two punch to post-World War II institutions meant to defuse or at least minimize international turmoil. Some, like those affiliated with the United Nations, often have proven to be ineffective but others, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, are showing encouraging resilience. […]

Israel is not on America’s mind. Americans are preoccupied with coming out of the COVID pandemic, jobs, the economy, etc. As for foreign policy, Americans have become more isolationist – this was the case with Afghanistan with the hasty U.S. pullout, and now, with Ukraine, while sympathizing with the Ukrainian struggle against Russian aggression, many […]

Of political parties, Thomas Jefferson said, “If I could not go to heaven but with a (political) party, I would not go there at all.”  James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” America’s Founding Fathers argued […]