In 2003, while I was teaching at Davidson College in North Carolina, I saw an ad in the local newspaper announcing a “Going out of business” sale of Utica Linen products.The mill that had been making these linens was closing and relocating to Asia, where they would be able to pay

For decades now, Yemen’s people have suffered from bad governance, underdevelopment and prolonged civil conflict.Despite enduring these multiple hardships, Yemenis have largely been ignored by the rest of the world.During the past year, Yemen’s pain has been compounded by a devas

This year’s presidential contest has proved to be both fascinating and, at times, frightening.Both parties are engaged in near existential struggles.In an effort to get the long view of the dynamics at work in this contest, last week I hosted Allan Lichtman, distinguished profess

The performance of four of the five remaining presidential candidates at American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) policy conference made for a perfectly strange and unsettling week in Washington.The entire affair was more of a spectacle than a conference.

When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) comes to town this week for its annual policy conference, high on the agenda of issues it will be pushing Congress to support are bills designed to “fight the boycott of Israel”.This campaign to combat efforts to “boycott,

This past week, the Pew Research Centre released the results of a massive poll of Israeli public opinion — focusing on their attitude towards religion, identity, values and political issues facing their country.In the days that followed the release, a number of articles appeared

This has been one crazy political week.

Donald Trump’s candidacy is American politics reduced to the absurd.

The Democratic presidential primary race is shaping up to be a fascinating contest between the voters’ views of two distinct political personalities.Some find this state of affairs confounding, believing that the election should have been a “slam-dunk” for Hillary Clinton — the f