With all due respect to the gubernatorial candidates who won their elections on November 7, there can be no doubt that their road to victory was paved, in part, by voters’ rejection of Donald Trump and Trumpism.The president was not on the ballot, but his presence was felt by an

In 1919, following World War I, the victorious Allied Powers met in Paris to remake the world.The prime ministers of Italy, France and Great Britain, as well as US President Woodrow Wilson, collectively known as “The Big Four”, were the decisive diplomatic players at the meeting.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in which Great Britain’s foreign secretary, Lord Balfour, stated in a note to his colleague, Lord Rothchild, that “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home fo

Having come through a difficult 2016 primary campaign and a hotly contested 2017 race for party chair, what Democrats desperately need is to unify their ranks to confront the challenges they will face in the 2018 mid-term elections and beyond.What happened over the last three day

Despite the fact that the stock market is at record high and the unemployment rate, which began its substantial decline during the Obama administration, is now at record low, we spend our days haunted by the gnawing sense that life has spun out of control.In recent weeks, we have

Last week, a group of Likud members and experts presented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan to carve up Arab Jerusalem in somewhat the same way that Hebron was dismembered, some saw news of this effort as a positive sign that the Netanyahu government might be

Last week, Israel announced that the heart of Hebron would henceforth be a separate municipality directly governed by Israel’s civil administration.There are about 700 extremist Israeli settlers currently living in a few compounds in the centre of the city, protected by the Israe

Last week, I became the chairman of The Sanders Institute (TSI), an initiative that grew out of the Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign of 2016.While, as a sitting senator, Sanders cannot be involved in the work of TSI, we are committed to elevating the issues on which he based

For half of the past two decades, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has served as prime minister of Israel.