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Last week, Donald Trump bussed all the Republican congress-people to the White House to celebrate the passage of a much criticized tax reform bill, massing them in the garden in neat, tiered rows, like a class picture. The image reminded me of decades-old photographs of the Soviet Politburo standing in their overcoats on the Red Square reviewing reviewing stand. The United States...

As is well known, Southeast Asia is one of the world's centers of drug production. We are talking about the infamous "Golden Triangle", located in the remote mountainous areas of the Indochina Peninsula, at the point where Laos, Thailand and Burma (which since 1989 has been...

There has been a recent buzz promoted around the so-called Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad - a coalition of sorts counting the United States, India, Australia, and Japan as...