2019

• But what do we do now?;  January 14, 2019 (pdf)

• The Real Issue of the Mueller Investigation; April 12, 2019 (pdf)

• What lies behind the race toward war with Iran?; May 12, 2019 (pdf)

• Running out of time;  May 19, 2019 (pdf)

• London Review of Books (LRB) letter; April 12. 2019 (pdf)

• The Refugee Trail; July 22, 2019 (pdf)

• Israel: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; August 3, 2019 (pdf)

2018

• Inside the White House; January 4, 2018 (pdf)

• If Trump Feels Cornered, Watch Out!; January 14, 2018 (pdf)

• We Should Keep out of the Ukraine; January 15, 2018 (pdf)

• Beyond Bleeding: Healing; February 21, 2018 (pdf)

• Bolton in the Cat Seat; March 24, 2018 (pdf)

• Israeli Strategy; April 9, 2018 (pdf)

• If Trump Feels Cornered, Watch Out!; May 9, 2018 (pdf)

• The Implications of Voiding the Iran Nuclear Deal; May 9, 2018 (pdf)

• Palestine Part 1; May 22, 2018 (pdf)

• Traduction Palestine Part 1 (French Language); May 22, 2018 (pdf)

• Failure in Afghanistan; May 24, 2018 (pdf)

• Lessons Learned from the U.S. Stabilization Effort in Afghanistan; May 24, 2018 (pdf)

• Afghanistan, the official; May 24, 2018 (pdf)

• Part 2: Where we have been going and what next; June 14, 2018 (pdf)

• Mr. Trump goes to Helsinki; July 15, 2018 (pdf)

• VIPS to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC; July 30, 2018 (online)

• The Implications of Voiding the Iran nuclear deal; Sept 5, 2018 (pdf)

• Do Cry Wolf; September 7, 2018 (pdf)

2017

• Tweedledumb and Tweedledee, Democrats and Republicans; March 25, 2017 (pdf)

• America on the Brink of Nuclear War (Part 2): What should we do?; September 4, 2017 (pdf)

• MAYDAY KOREA! - Part 1; August 25, 2017 (pdf)

• MAYDAY KOREA! - Part 2; September 4, 2017 (pdf)

2016

• No Article

2015

• The Cuban Missile Crisis In Reverse; February 24, 2015 (pdf)

• Ukraine Crisis; February 24, 2015 (online)

• Postscript on a Solution to the Ukrainian Crisis; February 27, 2015 (pdf)

• Needed: Leaders Like JFK and Khrushchev; February 27, 2015 (online)

• Ukraine Crisis; February 27, 2015 (online) (no longer)

• Simple Things; March 14, 2015 (pdf)

• Yemen Redux; April 3, 2015 (pdf)

• Coping with the Sense of Drift and Disorder in World Affairs, Part 1;  May 13, 2015 (pdf)

• A Fable for Our Times; May 24, 2015 (pdf)

• Toward a National Strategy to Cope With a New World; June 25, 2015 (pdf

• Toward a Rational US Strategy (Part 2); July 1, 2015 (online)

• What not to do about the Middle East; July 3, 2015 (pdf)

• How to Begin to Understand Violent Political Movements: Part I; August 4, 2015 (pdf)

• Under the Banner of Religion: Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare Today: August 25, 2015 (pdf)

• Some Reflections on Nuclear Weapons; August 28, 2015 (pdf)

• Pushing the Edge on Nuclear War; August 28, 2015 (online)

2014

• The Law Governing American Use of Force in Foreign Affairs; January 13, 2014 (pdf)

• The Law of Nations, American Law, Wars and Attempts to Stop Them; Jan. 24, 2014 (pdf)

• No End of a Lesson -- Unlearned; June 12, 2014 (pdf)

• Djibouti: U.S. soldiers to be flown to Africa to provide specialist training; May 30, 2014 (online)

• We Should All Be Frightened by What's Happening in Israel; July 9, 2014 (online)

• The Struggle For Palestine; August 3, 2014 (pdf)

• JFK advisor warns against military intervention in Iraq; August 14, 2014, (online)

• The Struggle For Palestine, Part 2; August 31, 2014 (pdf)

• The Struggle For Palestine, Part 3: September 26, 2014 (pdf)

• Strategy versus Tactics:  Is America Losing Its Way?; November 5, 2014 (pdf)

• Banking Crimes; November 14, 2014 (pdf)

• The Iraq War’s Pricy Ticket; November 15, 2014 (online)

• Ukrainian crisis; December 15, 2014 (pdf)

• Shaping The Deep Memories Of Russians and Ukrainians; December 15, 2014 (pdf)

2013

• Your Labor Day Syria Reader, Part 2; Sept. 2, 2013 (online)

• What would be the cost of intervention in Syria?; Sept 9, 2013 (movie-on TV)

• On the Syrian Brink; August 30, 2013 (pdf)

• An American's Death, Still A Greek Mystery 65 Years Later; October 27, 2013 (pdf)

• Syrian Civil War Rooted in Drought Years Before Fighting Began; October 31, 2013 (online)

• First Essay on Syria; November 7, 2013, (pdf)

• Understanding Syria; November 6, 2013 (pdf)

• Understanding Syria; November 6, 2013 (online)

• Understanding Syria From Pre-Civil War to Post-Assad; December 10, 2013 (online)

• Chemical Weapons; November 28, 2013 (pdf)

• Sayyid Qutub’s Fundamentalism and Abu Bakr Naji’s Jihadism; Dec. 1, 2013 (pdf)

2012

• No Article

2011

• Libya, March 31, 2011 (pdf)

• Revised Rationale, March 31, 2011 (pdf)

• President Obama and the Palestine conflict, May 29, 2011 (pdf)

• The Decade of 9/11, June 14, 2011 (pdf)

2010

• Mis-step in Afghanistan; January 15, 2010 (pdf)

• Meeting of the Oxford Union; January 24, 2010 (pdf)

• Legitimation Crisis in Afghanistan; April 1, 2010 (pdf)

• Legitimation Crisis in Afghanistan; April 1, 2010 (The Nation on April 19) (online) (no longer)

• Afgh; June 27, 2010 (pdf)

• US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Lessons from Humpty Dumpty; June 28, 2010 (pdf)

• Spirt Level Review; June 30, 2010 (pdf)

• Impressions of Afghanistan; August 24, 2010 (pdf)

• Steps Toward Withdrawal; August 22, 2010 (pdf)

• Foreign Policy Expert: Afghan War Not Sustainable; September 15, 2010 (online)

• International News - France 24; October 25, 2010 10/25/2010 (online)

2008

• Notes for lectures at the Economic Club of Phoenix and the Committee for the Republic in Wash. D.C.; March 1 (pdf)

• IRAN: Danger And Opportunity; March 18, 2008 (pdf)

• Talk at Bennington College students and faculty; September 15, 2008 (pdf)

• Talk before the 21st Century Club of Cleveland, Ohio; September 20, 2008 (pdf)

2009

• The Danger of War in the Middle East; April 16, 2009 (pdf)

• Dear Friends; April 19, 2009 (pdf)

• Website for 2009; July 23, 2009 (pdf)

• The Georgian War; August 5, 2009 (pdf)

• William Polk on the Afghanistan Folly; August 31, 2009 (pdf)

• An Open Letter to President Obama; The Nation on Sept. 30, 2009 (online)

• Revised Policy 11; November 10, 2009 (pdf)

2007 

• Address to the Progressive Caucus and the Out of Iraq Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday; January 12, 2007 (pdf)

• The cost of Iraq war and the savings to be effected by withdrawal; January 2007 (pdf)

• The United States and Iran: A Tragic Friendship; April 8, 2007 (pdf)

• The Palestine Tragedy; June 5, 2007 (pdf)

• Fact Sheet on the Iraq War; June 8, 2007 (pdf)

• Executive Summary of the Conclusion to Violent Politics; July 4, 2007 (pdf)

• Broadsheet for Congress; July 4, 2007 (pdf)

• Revised Congress; September 19, 2007 (pdf)

• India's Rush to Economic Development, November 10, 2007 (pdf)

2006

• Talk before Foreign Policy Association; September 1, 2006 (pdf) (Updated: 8/2007)

• Moves toward War with Iran: Part 1; October 9, 2006 (pdf)

• Moves toward War with Iran: Part 2, October 10, 2006 (pdf)

• Moves toward War with Iran: Part 3; October 11, 2006 (pdf)

• Moves toward War with Iran: Part 4; October 11, 2006 (pdf)

• When U.S. Occupation in Iraq Ends the Violence is More Likely to Subsid; December 4, 2006 (pdf)

• Comment on Baker-Hamilton; December 15, 2006 (pdf)

• The Results of Saddam Husain’s trial and execution; December 31, 2006 (pdf)

2005

• A Time for Leaving; Jan. 17, 2005 (pdf)

• Une sombre affaire; Jan, 2005 (pdf) (French Language)

• Lessons of Iraq; March 26, 2005 (pdf)

• Toward A Successful American Foreign Policy; June 18, 2005 (pdf)

• North Korea, Iran and the Untied States in the dangerous game of nations; June 20, 2005, (pdf)

• Chieu Hoi; August 28, 2005 (pdf)

• Another Winning Formula for Iraq; September 7, 2005 (pdf)

• American Religious Fundamentalism; November 15, 2005 (pdf)

2004

• La inspiración de los neoconservadores, January 25, 2004 (online)

• La Revolución Neoconservadora, February 3, 2004 (online)

• Understanding and Dealing with Terrorism; February 4, 2004 (pdf)

• What is to be done in Iraq; February 8, 2004 (pdf)

• What does the Bush administration really want in Iraq?; February 4, 2004 (pdf)

• Individual Terrorism; February 9, 2004 (pdf)

• Group Terrorism; February 10, 2004 (pdf)

• “The Self-Determination of Peoples”; February 12, 2004 (pdf)

• What to do about the “Unsatisfied Nations"; February 13, 2004 (pdf)

• Worldwide Terrorism, Part I, February 26, 2004 (pdf)

• Worldwide Terrorism, Part II, February 26, 2004 (pdf)

• ¿Qué busca Bush en Irak?, February 29, 2004 (online) (no longer)

• A Constitution for Iraq, March 9, 2004 (pdf)

• Reflections on the Killing of Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, March 24, 2004 (pdf)

• The Capture of Saddam Husain, April 2, 2004 (pdf)

• Two Great Architects, April 16, 2004 (pdf)

• The Wrong Road Ahead, April 18, 2004 (pdf)

• Outsourcing the War, April 20, 2004 (pdf)

• Thoughts on Torture, May 6, 2004 (pdf)

• Filling the Educational Gap In China, May 21, 2004 (pdf)

• Chinese Money – How much is there? Where is it Going, May 22, 2004 (pdf)

• The World of the Future, Pudong, China, May 24, 2004 (pdf)

• Nanjing, the City with a long Memory, May 26, 2004 (pdf)

• The Chinese Far West, May 27, 2004 (pdf)

• The Tourist’s Dream, a Modern Shangri-la, June 3, 2004 (pdf)

• The Fate of the Giant Panda Bear, June 8, 2004 (pdf)

• Azerbaijan Walks a Fine Line, June 8, 2004 (pdf)

• The Height of Luxury – Soon only a Memory, June 10, 2004 (pdf)

• Letter on China Trip, June 16, 2004 (pdf)

• Countdown in Iraq, Sept 19, 2004 (pdf)

• Random dots on the page, Sept 30, 2004 (pdf)

• Israel and Palestinians, October 2, 2004 (pdf)

• Syria the Neighbor, October 4, 2004 (pdf)

• Iran in the "Axis of Evil", October 5, 2004 (pdf)

• Eastern Pivot of the “Axis of Evil” -- North Korea, Oct 8, 2004 (pdf)

• Connecting the “Dots” on the Map, October 13, 2004 (pdf)

• American Options for Iraq, November 5, 2004 (pdf)

2003

• Notes of Talk with Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz; February 3, 2003 (pdf)

• First Impressions of Baghdad; February 5, 2003 (pdf)

• The Baghdad Museum Endangered; February 10, 2003 (pdf)

• As War Approaches; February 23, 2003 (pdf)

• Dark Matter; March 17, 2003 (pdf)

• The Kurds in the Iraq War; March 22, 2003 (pdf)

• La verdadera cruzada de Bush; March 23, 2003 (online)

• The Horror of the Palestine Conflict; April 7, 2003 (pdf)

• Understanding American Policy; April 10, 2003 (pdf)

• A Third Middle Eastern War?; April 18, 2003 (pdf)

• A Catastrophe for our Civilization; April 20, 2003 (pdf)

• Iraqi Quicksand; April 30, 2003 (pdf)

• Tariq Aziz; April 30, 2003 (pdf)

• Iraq: The End or the Beginning?; May 4, 2003 (pdf)

• The Virtues and Perils of the American Political System; May 10, 2003 (pdf)

• Secrecy versus Freedom of Information; June 10, 2003 (pdf)

• The Fall of the Almighty Dollar; June 25, 2003 (pdf)

• Rebuilding Iraq won't be easy, but it will be profitable; July 1, 2003 (pdf)

• The Yellow Cake Scandal; July 9, 2003 (pdf)

• A Turning of the Tide? Part I, Foreign Affairs; July 15, 2003 (pdf)

• A Turning of the Tide? Part II, Domestic Affairs; July 17, 2003 (pdf)

• Betting EveBetting Everything on a Hoax about Iraq, July 13, 2003 (Online)

• The Baghdad Museum: A Great Cultural Legacy became a Casualty of War; July 15, 2003 (pdf)

• Another Slice of Yellowcake; July 20, 2003 (pdf)

• The Expensive School of Iraq; August 20, 2003 (pdf)

• Down, Down, Down in the Iraqi Quicksand; August 30, 2003 (pdf)

• The Chinese Rice bowl made modern; September 25, 2003 (pdf)

• A Quick Look at China Today; October 4, 2003 (pdf)

• India on the Edge; October 18, 2003 (pdf)

• Iraq: Step by Step…In or Out? #1; November 12, 2003 (pdf)

• Iraq: Step by Step…In or Out? #2; November 13, 2003 (pdf)

• The Nonconservative Revolution in America; November 18, 2003 (pdf)

• Who’s Who in the Nonconservative Clique; November 18, 2003 (pdf)

• Conservativeness at “the Heights of Power”; November 18, 2003 (pdf)

• The Inspiration and Outreach of the Nonconservative; November 18, 2003 (pdf)

• The Nonconservative Agenda; November 18, 2003 (pdf)

• Copying Failure, From Palestine to Iraq; December 7, 2003 (pdf)

• The Unending Nonconservative Crusade; December 14 , 2003 (pdf)

2002

• What Kind of a World Will Our Grandchildren Face?; March 23, 2002 (pdf)

• Defining Terrorism; July 19, 2002 ((pdf)

• Freedom versus Secrecy; August 18, 2002 ((pdf)

• Build-up to War in Iraq; September 11, 2002 ((pdf)

• The Iraq Crisis compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis; September 11, 2002 ((pdf)

• The Bush Doctrine; September 21, 2002 ((pdf)

• Fear; Oct 7, 2002 (pdf)

• Analysis of Intelligence; October 11, 2002 (pdf)

Before 2002

• Encounters with Ibn Khaldun; March 7, 2001 (pdf)

• Toward a Solution to Terrorism; October 5, 2001 (pdf)

• Iraq: A New Leaf; February 18, 1999 (The New York Review of Books) (online)