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In an innocuously named – Stability and Democracy for Ukraine Act (or STAND for Ukraine Act [https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5094/text]) bill – there are provisions that deter Russia from overstepping the line of aggression.  It intends to convert into law the Obama measures of sanctions against Russia

While the intelligence community is telling us how Russian government had hacked into the servers of the DNC and even RNC, while they released only those emails that would hurt Hillary, we have some kids writing letters to President-elect Trump. They have advise of their own. Can’t say whether

The election victory of Donald Trump was an unprecedented one in many ways. The type of campaign he ran was just one part of it. Now, despite losing the popular vote by 2.84 million, he has won the math for the electoral college to be the next President-elect. However,

IN this morning’s Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, French Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said something simple but very remarkable.  In a question about how does France see itself in the world with Trump as the US President, who is critical of NATO and other such coalitions and deals.  He said

The Constitutional Convention in 1787 met behind closed doors and no one outside knew what had transpired in there.  As Benjamin Franklin left the Independence Hall on the final day of deliberations – Mrs Powel of Philadelphia asked him “Well, Doctor, what have we got – a Republic or a Monarchy?” Is

The 7th Vice President and the 16th Secretary of State of the United States, John C Calhoun was an avowed defender of slavery and owned “dozens of slaves in Fort Hill, South Carolina”!  Throughout his life, Calhoun – who is often called a “statesman” in many history books in US – fought