Kevin B. Sullivan
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A Trumpian Slice of New York City
Staten Island’s GOP primary reflects the borough’s support for the president → Read More
Why America Can't Go Swiss on Guns
When it comes to firearms, Americans arent just of two minds, but of two different nations entirely. The republic that first enshrined American gun rights back in 1791 bears little resemblance to... → Read More
Parkland's politics of pain
Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. → Read More
American Distrust
Can the country’s tribal differences be bridged? → Read More
The Islamic State's Claim to Spain
Spain hasn’t been in ISIS’ crosshairs as much as France and Britain, but it has been as a through-point for ISIS recruits and target of its propaganda for years. → Read More
Let's talk about dental inequality in America
Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. → Read More
Searching for Beijing in the Old Borscht Belt
MONTICELLO, N.Y. -- The cause of death, according to the scuttlebutt at the Miss Monticello Diner, was drugs, and the mournful mood that snowy spring morning in Sullivan County, New York, befit the... → Read More
The War in Ukraine: Russia�s Laboratory?
James Kirchick, author of the new book "The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age," worries that Donald Trump lacks the will and wisdom to defend the Western world against Russian aggression and subversion. Be sure to watch parts one and two of RCW's interview with James Kirchick. → Read More
France's Marine Le Pen Says She�s Not Waging a Religious War
The following is a script from "Le Pen," which aired on March 5, 2017. Anderson Cooper is the correspondent. Michael H. Gavshon, Francois Bringer and David M. Levine, producers. Anderson Cooper: The polls say you can't win. Marine Le Pen (translation): Yes. They also said that Brexit wasn't going to happen, that Donald Trump wasn't going to be elected, wasn't even going to be his party's… → Read More
The Lonely Lament of the Globalists
2016 proved to be a challenging year for globalists. The stunning summertime decision by Britons to leave the European Union, coupled with the equally unexpected election in the United States of... → Read More
What Does Iran Want in Iraq?
While the worlds watchful eye settles on the besieged and suffering city of Aleppo, another important conflict looms just across the Syrian border. For months now, Iraqi forces, joined by U.S.... → Read More
A (Tepid) Defense of Trump on Iraq
Yeah, I guess so. Probably no set of words has been parsed and pulled apart more in the 2016 presidential election season than these four, uttered by Republican presidential nominee Donald J.... → Read More
Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson on Syria, Iran, and Aid to Israel
The foreign policy positions of third-party candidates haven't received a great deal of media attention in the 2016 presidential election, but that could change in the weeks ahead as polls continue... → Read More
Jill Stein on U.S. Policy in the Mideast
The foreign policy positions of third-party candidates haven't received a great deal of media attention in the 2016 presidential election, but that could change in the weeks ahead as polls continue... → Read More
Is a Third Way Possible in the Middle East?
Sitting in for an interview last week on MSNBCs Morning Joe, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson found himself stumped and stumbling during this unfortunate exchange with... → Read More
Hillary Might Disappoint Her Hawkish Boosters
The speech was chock-full of red meat for her fans and for her detractors. Speaking before an audience of U.S. military veterans at last weeks American Legion National Convention in Cincinnati,... → Read More
Making Room for Syrians in Fortress America
Last weeks arrest in Avon, Ohio, of an Emirati man in traditional garb is just the latest reminder of the charged and divisive political atmosphere that seems to permeate the United States this... → Read More
What Makes Islam Different? An Interview with Author Shadi Hamid
RealClearWorld sat down recently with Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution to discuss his latest book, "Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World." → Read More
Why Political Islam Matters
Queens, N.Y. -- Nothing struck me as especially out of the ordinary about the Bait uz Zafar Mosque in the somewhat suburban neighborhood of Hollis. This Ahmadiyya Muslim center tucked alongside New... → Read More
Donald Trump's Mideast Myopia
It took very little time, following this week's horrific terrorist attacks in Brussels, for tragedy to give way again to talking points in this heated American election season. While President Barack... → Read More