by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 9, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Robert Service’s The End of the Cold War 1985-1991 is foremost a retelling of the nuclear arms control negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era. Other issues are found in the chapters that form the last two...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Aug 11, 2016 | Monitor
By Joan Wadelton, Guest Contributor When King Augeas asked Hercules to clean out his stables, Hercules – seeing that the task was impossible by normal means – rerouted two rivers to wash out the years of filth. A tale those of us in Washington should heed, lest the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 20, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Americans are facing one of the most difficult electoral choices since the founding of the Republic in 1789. How is it possible to explain the Trump phenomenon even to ourselves let alone foreigners? That was the primary question I was asked...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 8, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis London May 8. I spent May Day in London including ten minutes or so observing what amounted to a minuscule Socialist Workers demonstration whose participants had assembled on a small green near Karl Marx’s house in Islington and the pub across...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Apr 18, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Shortly before the Easter weekend, the State Department quietly published a partial breakdown of 2015 diversity statistics on its website. This endeavor was apparently only done at the prodding of a senior Senator. Except for data covering...