Pierre Atlas

After nearly 20 years, with about 2,400 American troops killed, 20,000 wounded, and $2 trillion, our counterinsurgency strategy failed.

Indeed, there is nothing democratic about Cuba.

I believe the solution lies in two secure and viable states, sharing Jerusalem.

The most vocal advocates on either side of the divide articulate mutually exclusive views.

Judged by the criterion of ‘one person, one vote,’ the U.S. Senate is the most unrepresentative legislative body in the democratic world.

America needs a responsible center-right party.

My fear is that their inflammatory—and knowingly false—rhetoric could incite right-wing extremist groups or lone wolves to commit acts of political violence.

Biden, moderate in temperament and empathetic in character, is uniquely qualified to reach across the chasm.

I will be voting against Trump, but I will also be voting for Biden.

Fifty-five years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. Before that, Americans of all races had risked their lives trying to help African Americans exercise their right to vote.

Trump’s most recent actions have actually rewarded Putin and supported Russia’s geopolitical goals.

Only African Americans have lived with nearly four centuries of the law being used not to protect rights but to suppress an entire people based on their race.

Trump is arguably the only president in American history who lacks the capacity to feel empathy—or even the ability to fake it.

In the coming weeks and months, we might discover that The Establishment turns out to be the bulk of the Democratic voters.

Can anyone say with a straight face that these Republicans would have voted ‘not guilty’ had President Obama done the exact same things as Trump?

Many Republican members of the legislative branch are acting as if their job is to protect the leader of the executive branch.

Israel’s Arab minority does not enjoy the same socioeconomic opportunities or civic equality with the Jewish majority.

While the Constitution guarantees a right to firearms ownership, no right is absolute, not even the right to bear arms.”