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Jimmy Carter Exemplified the Role of President as Diplomat

The news of Jimmy Carter’s passing takes me back to 1976, a year that marked my own passage to adulthood. As the bicentennial year dawned…

Dec 30, 2024

Jimmy Carter Exemplified the Role of President as Diplomat

Dec 30, 2024

A Working Class Party without Working Class Voters

Over recent decades, the Democratic and Republican parties have traded core constituencies. Working class voters, once securely in the…

Dec 30, 2024

Dec 30, 2024

Is the GOP Now Pro-Worker? Not Really

Led by billionaire Donald Trump and former venture capitalist J.D. Vance, the Republican Party now proclaims itself the party of…

Aug 1, 2024

Aug 1, 2024

Mike Johnson’s Historic Choice

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faces a critical decision that could align his legacy with that of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who, in…

Feb 29, 2024

Mike Johnson’s Historic Choice

Feb 29, 2024

Henry Kissinger: China’s ‘Old Friend’

In the West, no shortage of commentators were quick to denounce Henry Kissinger as a war criminal upon his death. China’s media, by…

Dec 12, 2023

Dec 12, 2023

Beyond the Biden-Xi Summit: We have Staunched the Bleeding in US-China Relations.

While the relationship between the United States and China has been through many ups and downs since President Richard Nixon’s historic…

Nov 18, 2023

Nov 18, 2023

SCRUTINIZING KISSINGER

(On the occasion of Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday, I am sharing this review of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Kissinger that first…

Jun 10, 2023

Jun 10, 2023

Who Really Wants to Indoctrinate Students?

Pouring over the bills that survived Iowa legislature’s March 3 “funnel” deadline, I came across House File 12, which immediately gave me a…

Mar 13, 2023

Who Really Wants to Indoctrinate Students?

Mar 13, 2023

How the Ukraine War Influences Chinese Calculations about Taiwan

What lessons might Chinese President Xi Jinping and his advisers draw about Taiwan based upon Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

Apr 21, 2022

Apr 21, 2022

The Purposes and Limits of Sanctions

The dramatic suite of sanctions that have been imposed upon Russia in the wake of the latter’s invasion of Ukraine represent the endpoint…

Mar 18, 2022

Mar 18, 2022

David Skidmore

David Skidmore

David Skidmore is a professor of international politics at Drake University. All views expressed here are solely my own and not those of my employer.

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