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February 21, 2022

United States
TWE Celebrates Presidents’ Day

TWE’s annual essay about the United States’ commanders-in-chief.

The Oval Office arranged for the new President Joe Biden on January 21, 2021.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

November 19, 2013

Palestinian Territories
Palestinians From Syria: The Worst Treatment of All

There are over 500,000 Palestinian "refugees" in Syria, as counted by the UN agency handling Palestinian "refugees," the UN Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA. The quotation marks are especially apt in…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

November 19, 2010

United States
The Treaty of Versailles Remembered

Today marks the anniversary of the Senate vote to reject the Treaty of Versailles. I am flagging the vote not because it was one of the pivotal moments in the history American foreign policy, though …

Borah, Lodge, and Smoot
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

May 7, 2015

Wars and Conflict
TWE Remembers: The Sinking of the Lusitania

Asking “what if” is a popular parlor game. Seldom, however, do we ever get an answer, and certainly not almost immediately. King George V of Britain is a rare exception. On the morning of May 7, 1915…

Lusitania-Sinks
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 31, 2011

Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Do We Have an Obama Doctrine?

President Barack Obama steps off Marine One to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington on March 29, 2011. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters) The World Next Week Podcast is up.  Bob M…

President Barack Obama steps off Marine One to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington on March 29, 2011.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge