Crisis

Arrests by masked ICE agents caused a feeling of violation in many Americans, a feeling of nakedness, as in stripped…

“We don’t have one.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Familiar with Luigi Mangione, defendant in the legal case US Department of Justice v. Luigi Mangiione? OK, imagine…

A long-running alleged plot, if exposed in South Korea, could discredit the country’s often-praised history of republican democracy. A martial-law…

Some guns seized in Venezuela in September 2024 were made solely for US Navy SEAL commandos.[1] The rifles came from…

Puzzled by current furor over Venezuela 2024 elections? Look to Bolivia 2019. In each of these countries in those years,…

“Armed gangs are destabilizing Haiti.” Yes, but for the most part these “gangs” are simply private armies – militias –…

“Lawfare,” the misuse of legal powers against perceived enemies, has increased in recent years. Both legislatures and judiciaries have been…

In early 2014, rising young Brazilian attorney Sergio Moro invented Operation Car Wash.[1] This was an investigation alleging that many…

The Republic of South Korea in 1980 was a “banana republic” in the sense that self-government did not really obtain,…

In 1967 against a Vietnam war that lacked for wide patriotic support, a group of high-school students including me carried…