International Relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin Addresses the American People

June 16, 2007

I have been trying to communicate with the citizens of the United States of America.   As president of the world’s largest and second most dangerously armed nation, I believe what I have to say about foreign affairs and U.S.-Russian relations should interest the wealthiest and most powerful people on earth.  But I’m having trouble getting…

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Construction Magnate Declares that Walls are Key to Peace

July 19, 2006

“Good fences make good neighbors,” declares a man on the other side of his border with Robert Frost, and the poet considers telling him: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”  I’m poised online, and at points of conflagration worldwide, to tell Mr. Frost that…

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