Articles by Robert Zaller

The year 2019 offers several landmark dates: the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, the 70th of the founding of NATO and the 30th…

Amazon may swallow the world in the end. But it won’t get Long Island City. That was the big news out of the Big Apple,…

We got into Afghanistan without thinking it through. We effectively abandoned the fight there within a year, as the George W. Bush regime began to…

In “Politics,” the book that founded the study of political science, Aristotle distinguished three basic forms of government: kingship, or rule by a single person;…

It’s anybody’s guess how the present government shutdown will end, or at what cost. What is clear is that Donald Trump has met his match…

As the shutdown that has closed a quarter of the federal government for nearly a month proceeds, the likelihood that Donald Trump will declare a…

When future generations look back on the second decade of the 20th century, they will mark the point when it began as the day in…

George Orwell must be tired of turning over in his grave in the age of President Donald Trump, but the biggest whopper of all has…

This past week has seen the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, hosted by President Emmanuel Macron of France.…

A few months ago, I wrote a piece in these pages suggesting that we regard Donald Trump as our first fascist president. It set off…