A Public Disservice: The House Ethics Report on Matt Gaetz and a Failure of Justice
With the announcement of many of Donald Trump’s new cabinet members, it is clear this administration will be markedly different from Trump’s first administration....
How Merrick Garland Failed America
The America of 2025 will be unlike any other in American history. It will be marked by further economic growth for the billionaire class,...
Hoover’s Ghost: Kash Patel, the FBI, and the End of Non-Partisanship
The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a pivotal, integral, and important post in the U.S. federal law enforcement community. Second...
The Coming Kakistocracy: The Cabinet Nominations of Trump and Future of U.S. National Security
With the election of Donald Trump to the presidency once more, a term will once again be in wide usage, as it had been...
An Ideology of Power, National Interest, and the State: Realism and Power in International Relations
Realism is nothing more than the ideology of powerful states.
In Dunne and Schmidt’s chapter on realism for the International Relations (IR) textbook The Globalization...
Planning for the Aftermath: The Most Difficult Part of Regime Change Operations
By 2014, the Global War on Terrorism had gone into full swing. The United States had formally entered and intervened in the Syrian Civil...
A Weapon of War: Rapes in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
Warfare has always involved violent activity. It is the state-sanctioned, societally accepted form of murder determining which nation-state or non-state actor has power over...
Cold War Paranoia and the Increased Powers of the Executive Office of the U.S. President
Cooperation between U.S. presidencies and the Congress is imperative to any successful administration. Without cooperation, bargaining, concessions, and appeasements from both sides, the creation...
Overestimation in Intelligence: The Overestimation of Russia’s Armed Forces
General George S. Patton, one of the most revered military commanders by the U.S. public, once was quoted as saying “You shouldn’t underestimate the...
Personal Freedom: Libertarians, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, and a Crisis of Ideology
In the past few weeks, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine experiencing daily developments, many have opposed Russia’s tactics, strategy, and overall military adventure...