I tend to agree with Ross Nelson when it comes to his libertarian positions on U.S. military aggression. However, in his latest letter to the editor ( https://www ...

Editor: Most Americans probably never heard of Martin Niemöller. Niemöller was a Lutheran pastor who was a citizen of Germany before, during, and after World War II. Initially he supported the ...

It's been said that you're never too old to learn. Incumbent with that, I think it's always good to broaden one's horizon by visiting new places and experiencing other cultures. After my trip last ...

Flag Day and the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army are moments when we can be proud, as well as humbled, to live in the United States. This country offers us magnificent ideals to live up to, yet has a ...

Are the lessons from Iraq so quickly forgotten? In that war, overconfidence in U.S. technological superiority and arrogance at the beginning of the war — remember Don Rumsfeld’s gleeful “shock and awe ...

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As citizens it is our responsibility to defend democracy when it’s being corrupted and under threat. In late 2016, Timothy D. Snyder, a historian of 20th century Europe, published “On Tyranny: Twenty ...