Kissinger: US foreign policy 'very responsive to the emotion of the moment'

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a new interview that modern U.S. diplomacy is "very responsive to the emotion of the moment.” “I think that the current period has a great trouble defining a direction. It’s very responsive to the emotion of the moment,” Kissinger told The Wall Street Journal.   The 99-year-old Kissinger noted that U.S. leadership is focused on condemning ideas it disagrees with,

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Republicans’ response to Mar-a-Lago search shows why we need more like Rusty Bowers

Before we learned that the FBI had probable cause to believe that it needed to retrieve documents related to nuclear weapons still held on Aug. 8 at Mar-a-Lago, Trump defenders launched dangerous attacks on law enforcement. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted “

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Democrats are on a dangerous path with drug pricing

The passage of Democrats’ sweeping economic package — which is designed to combat climate change, address health care costs and reduce the deficit by raising taxes on corporations — is a major win for President Biden’s agenda. Further, Democrats’ push to pass a $35 insulin cap for non-Medicare patients was the right move both practically and politically — even though it was ultimately unsuccessfu

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Park the snowplow: Parents need to let first-year college students grow

Over the years, each of us has seen numerous communications from parents and guardians, especially of first-year students. But recently, the volume and specificity of inquiries have grown exponentially, driven in part by the establishment of parent Facebook groups. Many of the questions are important and appropriate. Who should be contacted in an emergency? What health and counseling services are available? Who receives student grades?  Who gets informed — and when — if a student faces disciplinary action? Answers to these questions are usually available on college and univer

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1 dead, 17 injured after after car strikes crowd at community fundraiser

One person was killed and 17 others injured when a man drove a vehicle through a crowd on Saturday, according to police in Pennsylvania. The suspect, 24-year-old Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, left the scene and assaulted and killed a woman in a neighboring county before he was apprehended, Pennsylvania State Police said. Reyes was charged with two counts of criminal homicide, denied bail and remanded to a correctional facility in Columbia County, where the first attack occurred,

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