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Opinion pieces by Steady State Members regarding current events in American politics and Democracy

All Aboard the Retribution Train, April 27, 2026

The Death of Restraint, April 25, 2026

Who’s Really Deranged? Trump’s Favorite Insult Reveals More About its Author Than its Targets, April 24, 2026

What We Don’t Know About Government Can Hurt Us, April 22, 2026

As We Argue About Red and Blue, the Guardrails Are Disappearing, April 21, 2026

Papers, Please, America, April 19, 2026

This is How Diplomacy Dies, April 18, 2026

More Burden than Privilege, April 17, 2026

A View from An Iranian Observer: Strategic Pressure or Dangerous Precedent? April 16, 2026

Putin’s Puppet, April 15, 2026

The Art of No Deal, April 14, 2026

Trump Unleashed: Leadership Patterns and Implications in the Second Term, April 13, 2026

Voting Out the Autocrat, April 13, 2026

Unfit to Command, April 13, 2026

Sleepwalking Into Danger, April 12, 2026

A Kremlin Talking Point Becomes an American Accusation, April 11, 2026

Trump: Big Talker, Pitiful Leader – What Has He Achieved? April 11, 2026

Democracy on the Brink, April 10, 2026

Let Me Count the Ways: How Hegseth is Harming the Military, April 10, 2026

If the ODNI Won’t Assess Threats, Who Will? April 09, 2026

Putin’s Window in Ukraine, Courtesy of Donald Trump, April 08, 2026

The Steady State Files Formal Objection to Department of Justice Proposed Rule Undermining Independent Attorney Oversight, April 07, 2026

Autocrats and the Broken Window Effect: Global Edition, April 07, 2026

The Cost of Gaslighting: Trump Must Now Reap What He Has Sown, April 06, 2026

Why a Superpower Finds Itself Alone, April 04, 2026

Rule of Law vs. Rule of One, April 03, 2026

DHS- ICE: The Making of a Paramilitary Force Plain Sight, April 02, 2026

Robert Mueller: A Hero Remembered, A Presidency Revealed, April 01, 2026

From Caracas to Tehran: The Same Failed Playbook, April 01, 2026

The Ice Gulag-Power, Surveillance, and Fear Undermine Our Democracy; Push Back, March 31, 2026

Reckless Power: Steering America Toward a Deeper Middle East Quagmire, March 31, 2026

Threatening War Crimes: Has Trump Finally Crossed the Line?, March 30, 2026

Trump Has Created a Strategy to Make U.S. Less Secure, March 29, 2026

Is Trump our George III?, March 28, 2026

Trump’s Gold Coin Caper, March 27, 2026

DHS- ICE: The Making of a Paramilitary Force Plain Sight By Ken Syring, April 2, 2026

Robert Mueller: A Hero Remembered, A Presidency Revealed By Mike Mozur, April 1, 2026

From Caracas to Tehran: The Same Failed Playbook By Brian R. Naranjo, April 1, 2026

The Ice Gulag-Power, Surveillance, and Fear Undermine Our Democracy; Push Back By James Petrila, March 31, 2026

Reckless Power: Steering America Toward a Deeper Middle East Quagmire By Bill Piekney, March 31, 2026

Threatening War Crimes: Has Trump Finally Crossed the Line? By Charles A. Ray, March 30, 2026

Trump Has Created a Strategy to Make U.S. Less Secure By Mike Mozur, as published in the Pensacola News Journal, March 29, 2026

Is Trump our George III? By Michael Mozur, March 28, 2026

Trump’s Gold Coin Caper By Greg Rushford, March 27, 2026

Robert S. Mueller III: Servant Leader By Lauren C. Anderson, March 25, 2026

Conflicting Signals – Trump’s Semi-Forever War By Charles A. Ray, March 22, 2026

The War with Iran May Already be Lost By Robert Adolph, March 21, 2026

Hormuz 2026, Suez 1956 – Déjà Vu? By Harry Hannah, March 20, 2026

Loyalty Over Competence, By Bruce G. Berton, March 15, 2026

Tulsi’s Choice, By James Petrila, March 14, 2026

Cui Bono? Trump, Bibi, and the Iran ‘War,’ By Adam Wasserman, March 14, 2026

The World Just Became Less Secure: America’s Emergency Preparedness Is Not Ready for What Comes Next, By Mary Ellen Callahan, March 13, 2026

We Ultimately Lose When We Ignore The Rules By James Petrila and Annie Pforzheimer, March 13, 2026

Failure to Adhere to the Just War Theory Threatens to Turn Epic Fury into an Epic Failure By Charles A. Ray, March 12, 2026

As He Later Acknowledged, That Evidence Was “Flawed,” By Margaret Henoch, March 12, 2026

Our Constitution’s Halting Evolution Toward Equality Undermined by Authoritarianism, By Robert Bruce Adolph, March 11, 2026

The Rise and Fall of Congressional Oversight, By Greg Rushford, March 11, 2026

The International Rules-Based Order is NOT “Cloud Castle Thinking, By Harry Hannah, March 10, 2026

Reporting in the Crosshairs: Shane Harris on Politicized Intelligence, Press Freedom, and America’s Allies, By John Sipher and Shane Harris, March 10, 2026

America Corrupted, By Robert Bruce Adolph, March 8, 2026

Coming Tuesday: The Steady State Sentinel, Episode 16, “Reporting in the Crosshairs,” By The Steady State: The Steady State Sentinel, March 7, 2026

Epic Fury: Our Own-But-Not-The-First “Pearl Harbor”: Will We Never Learn?, By Charles A. Ray, March 7, 2026

Expect More Summonses, By Adam Wasserman, March 6, 2026

Judicial Constraint of President’s Security Clearance Authority Affirmed, By J. William Leonard, March 5, 2026

Unlike George Washington, Trump Lies Easily. Which Matters How?, By Margaret Henoch, March 5, 2026

Intelligence First. War Second. What Justified the U.S. Attack on Iran, and What Comes Next?, By Jonathan M. Winer, March 5, 2026

Trump, Big Talker, Pitiful Leader, Playing With Fire, By Tom Wolfson, February 25, 2026

Ice And CBP Have A Crime Problem – And It’s Not Immigrants At Fault, By George Croner, February 24, 2026

Trump’s Board Of Peace Smells Like A Swindle, By Bill Piekney, February 23, 2026

Were the ICE Operations in American cities about more than immigration?, By Charles A. Ray February 22, 2026

Damaged Goods, By Greg Rushford, February 20, 2026

Should the military be expected to have to say “no” to civilian authority?, By Charles A. Ray, February 20, 2026

A Legal Win … Followed By A Tirade On Tariffs From A Churlish Child, By George Croner, February 20, 2026

Jeremy Carl and the Road to Munich, By Adam Wasserman, February 19, 2026

Judge Luttig’s Warning: A Constitutional Conservative Sounds the Alarm, By The Steady State, February 19, 2026

Standing Together, Disagreeing Later: The Logic of the “Strange Bedfellows” Strategy, By The Steady State, February 17, 2026

A breakdown in the chain of command, By Charles A. Ray, February 16, 2026

Oil Over Democracy: The United States Embraces A New Authoritarian In Venezuela, By Brian R. Naranjo, February 15, 2026

The Gems That Made Us Unique Are Eclipsed, but There Among the Lengthening List of Forsaken Friends, Allies, Trade Agreements and Influence, the Core Principles of Heart, Humanity and American Ideals, By Bill Piekney, February 14, 2026

Trauma in the Twin Cities: Effective Federal Civil Rights Oversight is Desperately Needed, By Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez and Peter Mina, February 12, 2026

Growing US Vulnerability Under Trump: Chinese and Russian Perceptions, By Robert Bruce Adolph, February 12, 2026

The Data Is Clear — A National Security Expert Assesses America’s Slide into Authoritarian Rule, Steven Cash on the Chaunce DeVega Podcast, February 12, 2026

Don’t Take My America Away – Immigration and Soft Power, By Harry Hannah, February 9, 2026

RIP CIA Factbook, By Margaret Henoch, February 8, 2026

The Modern American Oligarchy, It’s not just in Russia anymore, By Charles A. Ray February 8, 2026

The Incredible Shrinking Land of the Free: Americans Vacillate Between Hope and Gloom, as People March by the Millions and Trump Doubles Down, By Bill Piekney, February 6, 2026

Ex intelligence officers talk about their political advocacy group at UConn, By Ben Gingold, Featuring Marc Cardwell and Steven A Cash, February 5, 2026

The U.S. Retreat From the United Nations: Authoritarian Absurdity, By Annie Pforzheimer, February 5, 2026

The Guardrails are Coming Down; Presidential Power Run Amok, By Charles A. Ray , February 5 2026

And You Thought Donald Trump Was Not a Fan of History, By Bill Piekney, February 4, 2026

TikTok users fear censorship after US ownership change, By Janelle Dumalaon, Featuring Steven A Cash, February 3, 2026

What Can I Do? , By Margaret Henoch and Jennifer Gregg, February 3, 2026

The Threat to American Civil Liberties, By J. William Leonard, February 3, 2026

Trumping the Rules-Based International Order, By Greg Rushford, February 2, 2026

The Epstein files—a choice between accountability and a spectacle, By John Sipher, as published by Tomorrow’s Affairs, February 2, 2026

Why Alliances Matter, Author’s Name Withheld, January 31, 2026

Canada, We Hardly Knew Ye, By Adam Wasserman, January 31, 2026

TikTok: Technical Issues or Platform Enforcement? , January 30, 2026

Teetering On The Edge: The Trump Administration’s Congressional Allies Push Forward The Attack On The Federal Judiciary, By George Croner, January 30, 2026

No, ICE Officers, You Can’t Force Your Way Into Diplomatic Missions, By Ambassador (ret.) Robert F. Cekuta, January 29, 2026

Executive Order 12333: The Most Important Guardrail You Never Heard Of, By Steven A. Cash, January 29, 2026

Throwing to the Wolves, By Steven A. Cash, January 28, 2026

The Rebranding of DHS, ICE, and CBP: Are Nazi and White Supremacist Slogans Deliberate or Out of Ignorance?, By Charles A. Ray, January 28, 2026

America Hoodwinked and Misled, Then Aroused, By Bill Piekney, January 28, 2026

What Happens to People Under Autocratic Rule?, By Tom Wolfson, January 27, 2026

After Alex Pretti’s killing, is our ‘Steady State’ in stage IV decline?, The Ron Show Featuring Steven A Cash, January 26, 2026

The Department of Homeland Security becomes our own Ministry of Interior, By Steven A. Cash, January 25, 2026

Evading Accountability?, By Charles A Ray, January 25, 2025

Extrajudicial Killings by the Trump Regime, By Mark Goodman, January 25, 2026

Where Do We Find Those Who Will Save Our Collapsing Republic?, By Bill Piekney, January 25, 2026

Minneapolis: Violence, Accountabilty and Courage Under Pressure, By Lauren C Anderson, January 24, 2026

Is the U.S. approaching autocracy, or are we already there?, By Charles A Ray, January 23, 2026

America Last: Trump’s Trade Tantrums are Weakening U.S. Influence, and the World is Moving on Without Us, By Bruce G Berton, January 22, 2026

Greed, Need, and Fear: The Key to Understanding Donald Trump, By Charles A Ray, January 21, 2026

Open Letter to General Dan Caine, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, By William R. Piekney, January 21, 2026

Administration Cover-up: The Shooting of Renee Good, By George Croner, January 21, 2026

A Climate of Isolation, By Mark Goodman, January 20, 2026

“He Can’t Do That” Is a Hope, Not a Strategy, By Steven A. Cash, January 20, 2026

The Fourth Amendment Was Built to Stop Fear — Not Just Bad Evidence, By Steven A Cash, January 20, 2026

Bring Back Bivens, By Joshua Stanton, January 20, 2026

Trumpland, By Greg Rushford, January 19, 2026

Trust Is a National Security Asset, And We’re Spending It Poorly, By Sergio Fontanez, January 18, 2026

With Or Without The Insurrection Act, By Bill Piekney, January 16, 2026

Is Trump’s Ambition Outrunning His Grasp?, By Tom Wolfson, January 16, 2026

The MAGA Threat to Europe: Broader and Deeper than the Trump National Security Strategy, By Harry Hannah, January 16, 2026

How Do You Know You’re Living in an Autocracy? Just Look Around You, By Charles A. Ray, January 14, 2026

We Are Fast Becoming A Constitutional Republic On Paper Only, By Bill Piekney, January 12, 2026

After the Capture: Six Tests the U.S. Must Pass in Venezuela, By Jonathan M. Winer, January 12, 2026

America Once Knew How to Name Fascism, By Steven A. Cash, January 12, 2026

Yearning for the Gilded Age, By Charles A. Ray Jan 10, 2026

A New Gang Of Sheriffs In Town, By Bill Piekney, January 10, 2026

It Can’t End Like This, By Ken Syring, January 9, 2026

Power, Dominance, and the Authoritarian Temptation, By Martha Duncan, January 9, 2026

Fearing the Stranger: The Autocratic Logic (and the Danger) of Ending Refugee Admissions, By Annie Pforzheimer, January 9, 2026

Will Trump’s fixation on Greenland be the end of NATO? Or has the damage already been done?, By Charles A. Ray, January 7, 2026

Venezuela Was Not A Law Enforcement Operation. It Was Politics, By Lauren C Anderson, January 7, 2026

It’s Not Sedition; It’s American, By Michael Eiland, January 7, 2026

The Wrong Question About Venezuela, By Steven A. Cash, January 6, 2026

Venezuela After Maduro: Six Questions That Matter Now, By Jonathan M. Winer, January 5, 2026

The Steady State U.S. National Security and Globalism Take a Hit, By Bill Piekney, January 5, 2026

Trump has sunk his teeth into Venezuela: What’s next on the Menu?, By Charles A. Ray, January 4, 2026

Venezuela Shows the Danger of Power Without Restraint: Presidential Authority, Assumptions of Good Faith, and the Breaking Point, By The Steady State, January 3, 2026

The Staffing of Trump 2.0 – Part 2: Rules of the Road and the Danger of Ignoring Them, By Charles A. Ray, January 3, 2026

Does Trump now control Venezuela? Be careful what you wish for, By Charles A. Ray January 3, 2026

Going to Venezuela, a Policy Patchwork, By Bill Piekney, January 3, 2026

I Worked For You Preserving the Culture of Public Service, By Mark Goodman, January 1, 2026

The Staffing of Trump 2.0; Creating his own Personal Swamp – And One Day We’ll Have to Drain it, By Charles A. Ray, January 1, 2026

In the face of injustice, silence is assent Citizens’ voices matter!, By Charles A. Ray, January 1, 2026

How The Growth Of His Power Ate What Little Soul Trump Had Left, By Bill Piekney December 31, 2025

“The Alts”: Civil Society, Digital Dissent, and Democratic Resilience, By Steven A. Cash, December 31, 2025

NSPM-7 and the Constitution: A Dangerous Bundle of Contradictions, By Charles A. Ray, December 30, 2025

We Are Not Negotiating a Ukrainian Peace: Repeated Failures of Emissaries are not Attempts to Reach a Respectable End to War but a Dishonorable Effort to Wear Zelensky Down, By Bill Piekney, December 28, 2025

The Mass Recall of Experienced U.S. Ambassadors Endangers American Security, By Ambassadors (ret.) Robert F. Cekkuta and Eric Rubin, December 28, 2025

Shattered Trust, By Greg Rushford, December 27, 2025

Did Venezuela steal its oil and land from the United States?, By Charles A. Ray, December 27, 2025

Pardons-R-Us Insurrectionists, Drug Dealers, and Con Men, Oh My!, By Charles A. Ray, December 24, 2025

A Presidential Diagnosis, By Bill Piekney, December 23, 2025

Susie Wiles is Telling Us About US Foreign Policy (Among Other Things), By Adam Wasserman, December 21, 2025

The New National Security Strategy: A Transactional Document that Marginalizes Africa, By Charles A Ray, December 21, 2025

Why Are We in Venezuela? The Enemy Abroad, The Enemy Within, By Jonathan Winer, December 20, 2025

Bongino Quits FBI, By Ed Appel, December 20, 2025

Why Are We in Venezuela? The Enemy Abroad, The Enemy Within, By Jonathan Winer,  as published by The Washington Spectator, December 20, 2025

Where is Trump Leading America?, By Tom Wolfson, December 19, 2025

Leaving the Intelligence Community: A Line Analyst’s Perspective on Personal Responsibility, Author’s Name Withheld,  December 17, 2025

Department of Defense Base Re-renaming Jim Crow in a paper-thin disguise, Charles A. Ray, December 16, 2025

Awash in Unmanaged Crises and Distractions, the US Sits on its Hands while Britain’s Chief of Intelligence Sounds the Alarm, By Bill Piekney December 16, 2025

The Wars That Donald Trump Didn’t Stop: Assessing The ‘Master Dealmaker’s’ Grandiose Claims, By Charles A. Ray, December 15, 2025

Have You No Sense of Decency?, By Steven A. Cash, December 15, 2025

“Countering Domestic Terrorism And Organized Political Violence:” Trump and Bondi Strike at the Core of the First Amendment, Author’s Name Withheld, December 14, 2025

For the Sake of the FBI and the US, Patel Should ‘kash’ Out, December 12, 2025

And therein lies the rub… Destruction of community bonds, By Diane Blust, December 12, 2025

A Sordid American Confessional, By Bill Piekney, December 12, 2025

Afghans worried as Trump administration cracks down on their immigration to U.S, Featuring Lauren Anderson, December 12, 2025

Pentagon Redefines Drugs as Combat Threat, Justifying Strikes on Survivors, By Seth Hettena, December 9, 2025

Another Trump-brokered peace deal goes belly up Thai-Cambodia border dispute flares up again, Charles A. Ray December 8, 2025

Who Belongs in America? On dignity, resilience, and what we owe one another, By Lauren C Anderson December 8, 2025

How President Trump Stretches It, By Bill Piekney, December 7, 2025

Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States, By J, William Leonard, December 8, 2025

A Dangerous Strategy that Distances NATO and Puts Our Security at Risk, By Gregory L. Schulte, December 8, 2025

What is this “Foreign Service?” How does it benefit the American people?, By Tom Wolfson, December 7, 2025

The Birthday Parks: A Small Thing With a Very Big Signal, By Steven A. Cash, December 6, 2025

Destroying American Diplomacy: Pulling Down our First Line of Defense, By Charles A. Ray, December 5, 2025

Politics Driving DOD Personnel Initiatives Risk Our Military Capability, By Harry I. Hannah, December 5, 2025

Changing Face of a City: Moscow on the Potomac, By Charles A. Ray, December 4, 2025

At the Breaking Point: The State of the U.S. Foreign Service in 2025, December 4, 2025

Using hunger as a political weapon, A true crime against humanity , By Charles A. Ray, December 3, 2025

DOGE Is, Officially, Dead. What Did It Actually Accomplish?,  By Bruce G. Berton, December 3, 2025

Liberal vs Conservative or MAGA vs unMAGA? By Margaret Henoch and Jennifer Gregg, December 2, 2025

America’s ‘City on a Hill’ — on a Slippery Slope, By Greg Rushford, December 1, 2025

Trump may not be a fascist. Does it matter?, By Adam Wasserman, December 1, 2025

Legal vs. illegal, right vs. wrong Dealing with ethical and moral dilemmas, By Charles A. Ray, December 1, 2025

Screening and Vetting — How it works, and its limitations, November 30, 2025

The Malmedy Massacre A War Crime in Another Era, By Diane Blust, November 30, 2025

When Law Becomes Optional: The Dangerous Trajectory of Presidential Power, By Steven Cash, November 30, 2025

A new American Export The MAGAfication of the Western Hemisphere, By Charles A. Ray, November 29, 2025

The Intelligence We Need to Save Democracy | It’s the Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath & Steven Cash, November 28, 2025

“You Be the Judge” – From “Deportation Judges” to Authoritarian Justice, By Kerry E. Doyle, November 28, 2025

The Distance That Defines the Bureau — The Boundary That Must Stand Between the FBI and the White House, By Lauren C. Anderson, November 23, 2025

Asking Soldiers to Obey the UCMJ Isn’t a Crime; But Trump Thinks it is , By Bruce G. Berton and Charles A. Ray, November 23, 2025

Keep Ben Franklins Republic, Fixate on 2026, By Bill Piekney, November 23, 2025

The ‘Five Eyes’ Are Blinking, By Kevin Carroll, November 22, 2025

Trump’s Ukraine “Peace Plan” Is a Gift to Moscow, By Bruce G. Berton, November 22, 2025

Does Donald Trump Understand What Wielding American Power Requires?, By Tom Wolfson, November 22, 2025

It’s our democracy – can we keep it?, By Charles A. Ray, November 21, 2025

Capabilities, Not Authorities: The Quiet Evolution towards a Panopticon State, By Steven Cash, November 21, 2025

Why President Trump’s Embrace of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Matters , By Steven A. Cash, November 18, 2025

Becoming a Ham Sandwich, By Steven Cash, November 17, 2025

When Things Get Tough, Rogues Start Wars, By Charles A. Ray, November 16, 2025

The Future of Counterintelligence in America, By Edward J. Appel, Sr., November 13, 2025

Donald Trump’s path to authoritarian rule is wide open, By Chauncey DeVega, as published in Salon, November 13, 2025

Plutocrats And Turncoats, By Bill Piekney, November 11, 2025

What Has Been Done to America? What’s done in a short period will take a long time to undo, By Charles A. Ray, November 11, 2025

When the Purse and the Sword Collide: The President, “Available Funds,” and the Law, By The Steady State, November 11, 2025

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, By Margaret Henoch and Jennifer Gregg, November 9, 2025

The Evil King’s Evil Ministers, By Steven A. Cash, November 9, 2025

What We Can Do?, November 9, 2025

When the Market Bows to Power: Trump’s De Facto Nationalization of Private Enterprise, By Steven A. Cash, November 8, 2025

“While Rome Burns” — and What Nero Was Really Doing, By Steven Cash, November 8, 2025

The Trump Administrations Crosses Redline, By Steven Cash, November 7, 2025

The Silhouette The Steady State, By Marc Polymeropoulos, November 6, 2025

Autocracy: The Warning Signs I Saw in Panama Are Emerging in America, By Martha Duncan, November 6, 2025

Inside the Walls: Justice, Dignity and the Thin Line Between Law and Power, By Lauren C. Anderson, November 6, 2025

Culture and Courage, By The Honorable John Roth, November 5, 2025

“He thinks he’s the king”: One year after Donald Trump’s re-election, the United States faces the risk of an authoritarian drift, By Marie-Violette Bernard, November 5, 2025

What Is Behind Trump’s Accusations of Communism? By Adam Wasserman, November  5, 2025

The Theater of Power: Trump and the Tradition of Deliberate Decadence, , By Steven A. Cash, November 3, 2025

Creeping Authoritarianism: A Personal Account The Steady State, Authors Name Withheld, November 3, 2025

It’s All a Grift, By Bruce G. Berton, November 2, 2025

Waltzing off to War: A Dance with the Devil, By Charles A. Ray, November 1, 2025

Are We the Baddies? — Funny but it hurts…., By Steven Cash November 1, 2025

What Happens to People Under Autocratic Rule?, By Tom Wolfson, November 01, 2025

America: Is it Too Late to Stop the Spread of “Dictatorial Rot?”, By Greg Rushford, October 31, 2025

Is America Really in Danger of Slipping into Authoritarianism?. Podcast by Jack Hopkins, October 31, 2025

Plutonium Giveaway; Another Rash Step on Nuclear Energy, By Mark Goodman, October 30, 2025

The Day After Yesterday is Now!, By Charles A. Ray, October 30, 2025

Could It Come Down To The Generals,  By Bill Piekney, October 27, 2025

The Burden of Command: Setting the Compass, By Michael Eiland, October 26, 2025

Trump’s Ukraine Whiplash: The Peril of Policy by Impulse, By Bruce G. Berton, October 26, 2025

The Dangerous Strategic Logic of Expanding the MAGAverse, By Adam Wasserman, October 26, 2025.

The New World Disorder, By Charles A. Ray, October 25, 2025

Remaking America, By Bill Piekney, October 25, 2025

“The Burden of Command: Setting the Compass”, By Michael Eiland,  October 26, 2025

Former Intelligence Officials Warn Trump Poses Existential Threat to U.S. Democracy, Feat. Steven A Cash, By WPKN Radio, October 23

What We Choose To Defend, By Lauren C Anderson, October 22, 2025

Fighting our Neighbors Makes us Less Prosperous and Safe, By Ambassador Luis Moreno, October 22, 2025

“The Trump administration’s politicization of US national security” – A View From France, By Piotr Smolar, 21 October, 2025

Walking Away Again! By Bill Piekney, October 20, 2025

The Administration’s New ‘War’ on Drugs– Show Me the Evidence! By Charles A. Ray, October 20, 2025

I worked for Biden. Trump’s foreign policy gets this right, By Ned Price, October 20, 2025

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn, By The Guardian, October 19, 2025

A White House In League With Avaricious Titans, By Bill Piekney, October 17, 2025

How to Harm Intelligence Agencies and Compromise National Security at the Same Time, By Charles A. Ray, October 16, 2025

Authoritarianism 101: Gaudy Displays and Public Spectacles, By Charles A. Ray, Oct 15, 2025

The Trump Foreign Policy – Hollow and Dangerous, By Tom Wolfson, October 15, 2025

A Step Too Far: The Trump Administration’s Reckless Actions on Nuclear Energy, By Mark Goodman, October 15, 2025

The Real Weaponization of Justice, By Bruce G. Berton, October 14, 2025

Harm Close To Home: Disastrous Western Hemisphere Policies Blow Back On The US, By Brian R. Naranjo, October 12, 2025

The CIA Is A Target- Of The Presidency, By Bill Piekney, October 12, 2025

Authoritarianism 101: Create a crisis or start a war, By Charles A Ray, October 11, 2025

Surrendering Part Of The National Defense, By Bill Piekney, October 11, 2025

The National Security Costs of Diverting Federal Agents to Immigration Enforcement, By Jaime Ellison and Peter Mina, October 10, 2025

Project 2025 and the Purge of American Diplomacy: The Blitzkrieg Against State, Jonathan M. Winer, October 9, 2025

It Starts With a Lie; “Anyone Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities”, Author’s Name Withheld, October 9, 2025

Why Troops on the Streets of our Cities Degrade National Security; It’s a Lose-Lose Proposition, Charles A. Ray, October 9, 2025

ANTIFA Generational Trauma, By Diane Blust, October 9, 2025

American Samzidat, By Margaret Henoch, October 8, 2025

The Call is Coming from Inside the House, By Greg Rushford, October 7, 2025

Pete Hegseth: Platoon Leader, By Micheal Eiland, October 1, 2025

The Geneva Convention and “Rules of Engagement” -They Protect People at Both Ends of the Weapon, By Charles A Ray, October 1, 2025

The Pentagon Should Retract Its Secrecy Pledge, By Ned Price, September 30, 2025

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth – A Grave Danger to America, By Tom Wolfson, September 28, 2025

Authoritarianism 101: Demonization and Scapegoating, By Charles A Ray, September 28, 2025

An Epic Epidemic, By Charles A Ray, September 27, 2025

The Birthing Of A Terrorist, By Bill Piekney, September 26, 2025

No Chair For The US, By Diane Blust, September 26, 2025

Trump — A Big Talker but Pitiful Leader, By Tom Wolfson, September 25, 2025

The Bonfire of Relief: the Cruelty is the Point, By Bruce G Berton, September 24, 2025

Authoritarianism 101: Silence opposing and dissenting voices, By Charles A Ray, September 19, 2025

Trump Takes on Rampant Allegations of Anti-Christian Bias, By Margaret Henoch, September 17, 2025

Our Democracy Is Not Stronger Than Our Divisions, By Martha Duncan, September 16, 2025

US attack on Venezuelan boat could set dangerous precedent, By Andrew Rudman, September 14, 2025

Dangerous Rhetoric…a Springboard to Authoritarianism, By Jaime Ellison, September 13, 2025

How the “Deep State” (Doesn’t) Work, By Greg Rushford, September 13, 2025

Donald Trump and the Concept of Power, By Tom Wolfson, September 9, 2025

War Department? What message are we sending, and to whom?, By Charles A. Ray , September 6, 2025

Immigration Under Trump: A Moral and Strategic Failure, By Bruce G. Berton, September 6, 2025

Going Dark: Professional Intelligence Collection Matters, By Martha Duncan, September 6, 2025

Trumps America-First Bullying Is Turning Enemies Into Allies… And They’re Ganging Up On Us, By Charles A Ray, September 3, 2025

Distorting the Human Rights Report Undermines US Strategic Interests, By Anna Pforzheimer, September 3, 2025

Actions Have Consequences: Why I’m More Worried Now Than at Any Time Since 9/11, By Adrian Snead, August 29, 2025

Amateur Hour: Greenland Operation, By Christopher Burgess, August 28, 2025

Arlington Cemetery and Us, By Margaret Henoch, August 27, 2025

“America First”: A Really Terrible Idea That Weakens and Endangers America, By Tom Wolfson, August 26, 2025

Blinding Five Eyes: A Self-Inflicted Wound, By Charles A Ray, August 23, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard’s Revocation of the Security Clearances : A Reckless Action Based on a False Narrative. Author Withheld, August 22, 2025

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants: You all deserved better. By William J Burns, August 21, 2025

Clearance as Retribution: ODNI’s Weaponization of Access, By Christopher Burgess, August 21, 2025

In Another Turbulent Time, A President Turned to the National Guard, by Margaret Henoch, August 19, 2025

America’s increasing vulnerability to Russian Intelligence Operations and “Active Measures”, Author Withheld, August 17, 2025

When Trust is Lost, By Greg Rushford, August 16, 2025

From Lead to Clean-up, By Bill Piekney,  August 15, 2025

When the Past is Prologue: Noriega’s Playbook and Today’s Authoritarian Drift, By Martha Duncan, August 14, 2025

How Putin Tricked Trump, by Ned Price, August 13, 2025

The Guarantee Clause – Shield or Sword?, By Steven Cash, August 13, 2025

The Politicization of Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard and the Weaponization of Classified Information, August 13, 2025

Dismantling a Democracy: Block by Block, the American experiment at risk, by Charles A. Ray, August 11, 2025

Using Tariffs As A National Security Tool: A Cure-All, Or A Poison Pill?, by Charles A. Ray, August 10, 2025

What Possibly Could Go Wrong? Drones, Mexican Cartels, and Trump, by Annie Pforzheimer, August 8, 2025

Former prosecutor questions legitimacy of Bondi’s Russia Probe,  Steven Cash on PBS Newshour, August 6, 2025

We Are Still On The Beaches…, By Steven Cash, August 6, 2025

Manipulating Research and Science Data, Administration Seeks to Toss Lifesaving Greenhouse Emission Standards, By Diane Blust, August 3, 2025

Hands Off the Fed: Why Central Bank Independence Is Vital for Economic Stability and National Security, by Bruce G. Berton, August 3, 2025

The subtle slide toward authoritarianism: Just how far down the slippery slope are we?, by Charles A. Ray, August 02, 2025

Today is NOT Normal, By Martha Duncan, August 2, 2025

Weaponized Accusations, Hollow Claims: Trump and Gabbard’s Obama “Coup” Narrative Is a Case Study in Political Disinformation, name withheld, August 2, 2025

Donald Trump’s Wars, by Charles A. Ray, August 1, 2025

The U.S. intelligence community’s struggle with professionalism in an era of political pressure: When partisan maneuvering undermines apolitical mandates, by Charles A. Ray, August 1, 2025

When Public Power Becomes a Racket: What RICO’s Framework Reveals About Allegations of Government Extortion, by Steven Cash, July 31, 2025

Make Fossil Fuels Great Again – Why?, by Diane Blust, July 28, 2025

National Security for the Dinner Table- The Real Cost of Losing Taiwan,by Sergio Fontanez, July 28, 2025

SIGNALGATE Update: If Hegseth Can’t Protect Our Secrets, How Can He Protect America?, Name Withheld, July 27, 2025

The DNI under Tulsi Gabbard: A Stark Move From Foreign Intelligence to Domestic Intelligence?, Name Withheld, July 25, 2025

The Iceman Cometh: The First Target Is Immigration. The Next Is Democracy, by Jonathan M. Winer, July 24, 2025

What Began as the Politicization of Intelligence is Looking More Like Long Term Impairment, by Bill Piekney, July 22, 2025

Dezinformatsiya meets America’s “Magaphone, by Greg Rushford, July 24, 2025

Twilight in America?, by Bruce Held, July 22, 2025

What Happened to Marco Rubio? by Bruce G. Berton, July 22, 2025

The Dismantling Of USAID – A Major Self-inflicted Injury To US National Security, by Mark Goodman, July 22, 2025

State Department Cuts Hurt American Business, Prosperity and Economic Competitiveness,  by Robert Cekuta, July 19, 2025

What Happened to Marco Rubio? by Bruce G. Berton, July 22, 2025

The Dismantling Of USAID – A Major Self-inflicted Injury To US National Security, by Mark Goodman, July 22, 2025

A 500 TON Heartless Blunder, by Bill Piekney July 16, 2025

Inconsistency and uncertainty make for bad foreign policy, by Charles A. Ray, Jul 14, 2025

July 11, 2025 – A Sad Day for American Diplomacy, The Steady State | by Mark Goodman, July 14, 2025

The Perilous State of Our National Security: Does it Reflect Internal Estrangement, by Bill Piekney, July 13, 2025

Dear RIF’d public servants… thank you, by Gail Helt, July 12, 2025

Curtailing Foreign Student Visas: Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face,  by Charles A. Ray, July 11, 2025

America in a Changing World, by Robert F. Cekuta as published in FOREIGN ANALYSIS, July 10, 2025

Rethinking the Military-Law Enforcement Divide: From Army in the Streets to Police as Army,  by Steven A. Cash, July 9, 2025

The CIA Director Didn’t Read His Own Report, by John Sipher in The Bulwark, July 9, 2025.

How It Happened…,  by Nate Brought, July 9, 2025

The Dangers of Masked Law Enforcement Officers, by Charles A. Ray, July 5, 2025

Sliding into Authoritarianism The Indicators Are There For All To See, by Charles A. Ray, July 4, 2025

A Big Ugly Blow (BUB) To Domestic Energy Resilience, Jobs, the Economy and National Security, by Diane Blust, July 3, 2025

THE QUIET WAR: CHECKS, BALANCES AND SEPARATED GOVERNMENT VS THE UNITARY PRESIDENCY, by Bill Piekney, July 2, 2025

Dismissing Our Intelligence Collection and Analysis Capabilities Emboldens Our Adversaries, by Martha Duncan, July 2, 2025

The National Security Act of 1947 Meets The Real World, by Dr. Susan Koch, July 1, 2025

Inside the CIA: The Shocking Truth About Iraq, War, and Political Deception, with Margaret Henoch, July 1, 2025

Post-Partisan America: When the Game Stops Making Sense, by Steven A. Cash, June 30, 2025

The National Security Act of 1947 and the Disabling of America’s Decision-Making Brain, by Steven A. Cash, June 29, 2025

Think “That Was Wrong, But It Has Nothing To Do With Me?” Think Again, by Tom Wolfson , June 28, 2025

The West Wing WAS Real Life,  by Gail Helt, June 27, 2025

Pushing Europe to Take a Greater Role in its Own Defense, by Charles A. Ray, June 26, 2025

A Red Line has been Crossed: Navigating the Crossroads of Policy and Diplomacy, by Charles A. Ray, June 26, 2025

Barging Into War – Where’s The Exit?  by Charles A. Ray, June 24, 2025

Loyalty in Crisis: Civil-Military Tensions in the Second Trump Presidency, Published in the Small Wars Journal, By Robert Bruce Adolph, June 24, 2025

Searching for the Trigger, Jonathan Winer as published in The Washington Spectator, June 23, 2025

Iran: Why it is Difficult to Accept What the President Says at Face Value, by Bill Piekney, June 22, 2025

Lemures of the Republic or, The Ghost in the Machine, by Steven Cash, June 22, 2025

Military Excellence; A Solution or Another Mideast War?, by Bill Piekney, June 22, 2025

Irrational Reactions to the Birthright Citizenship Issue, by Charles Ray, June 22, 2025

Having Power is Never as Gratifying as Applying it in the Raw, by Bill Piekney, June 21, 2025.

The UCMJ versus Presidential Immunity, by Charles Ray, June 20, 2025.

On Iran, US restraint could reduce risks, by Jonathan M. Winer, in The Middle East Institute Blog, June 18, 2025

Trump’s Unregulated Capitalism Leads to the Death of Democracy: we are well on our way, By Robert Bruce Adolph, June 18, 2025

Our System of Laws Is Not Corrupt; The Problem Is The Assault Upon It, by Tom Wolfson, June 17, 2025

CIA Veteran John Sipher on How Disinformation Threatens National Security, with John Sipher, June 18, 2025

Our System of Laws Is Not Corrupt; The Problem Is The Assault Upon It, by Tom Wolfson, June 17, 2025

Iran Nuclear Crisis Moves To Tragedy, By Mark Fitzpatrick as published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, June 14, 2025

Tanks, Parades, and Tell-All Displays: What America’s Adversaries Will Learn on June 14, by Sergio Fontanez, June 12, 2025

America’s National Debt Crises, A Spy’s Guide to America’s Future, by Bruce Held, June 11, 2025

Closing the American Frontier in Science?, by Mark Goodman, June 11, 2025

Caesar in California- A domestic deployment in California could mark the moment the military ceases to serve the Constitution—and begins serving the man, by Jonathan M. Winer, in The Spectator, June 9, 2025

Ignorance is Not Bliss, by Susan Koch, June 8, 2025

The Many Hands Pushing America into a Deep Hole, by Bill Piekney, June 8, 2025

Giants and Pygmies, by Michael Eiland, June 6, 2025

Disrobing the Ugliness of Bad Policy, by Bill Piekney, June 6, 2025

Questionable hires (Big Balls? really?) highlight Trump’s disregard for the federal workforce and makes us less safe, by Gail Helt, June 5, 2025

How corporate America is taking a stand against Trump, by Paul Rozenweig in The Hill, June 2, 2025

The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast, National Security: Strategies for a Shaky Future, with Steven Cash, May 31, 2025

Does the United States Need a More Militant Democracy? A political concept from the mid-20th century has never been more relevant than now, by Suzanne Nossel, in Foreign Policy,  May 30, 2025.

Among the Damaging Bobbleheads It’s The President Who is Answerable, by Bill Piekney, May 30, 2025

Has Donald Trump’s response on Ukraine attack emboldened Vladimir Putin?, by Ambassador Mark Storella on Inside Story (4:45), May 28, 2025

The Intelligence Product is Foundational to the National Security Enterprise, by Bill Piekney May 28, 2025

How the Trump Administration Undermined U.S. Global Leadership: The Retreat from Democracy, by Bruce C. Berton, May 27, 2025

Democrats must build a new consensus on democracy, economy, by Richard J. Kessler, in the Portland Press Hearlad, May 26, 2025

SpyTalk Podcast, with Steven Cash, May 23, 2025

Repealing the Inflation Reduction Act will hurt Maine, by Robert Cekuta, in the Bangor Daily News, April 18, 2025.

Línea de fuego, Univision Interview with Martha Duncan, May 21, 2025 (mark 16:10)

The Politicization of Intelligence — and its Consequences, by Michael Eiland, May 22, 2025

The War on DEI – A Disservice to America, by Martha Duncan, May 20, 2025

Preemptive Tinkering with the Intelligence Product Invites Bad Karma, by Bill Piekney, May 16, 2025

CIA Gets Hammered for Telling the Truth, by Bill Piekney, May 14, 2025

The War on Science, by Tony Fainberg, May 14, 2025

Keep Public Service Apolitical, by Annie Pforzheimer, May 14, 2025

The People’s Receiver – Hitler’s “Social Media”, by Diane Blust, May 13, 2025

The Destruction of Institutionalism, by Bill Piekney, May 10, 2025

What Possibly Could Go Wrong? Drones, Mexican Cartels, and Trump, by Annie Pforzheimer, May 5, 2025

Milking and Managing Conflicting Ideas Made for a Great President, by Bill Piekney, May 5, 2025

The Destruction of the Department of Justice, by Paul Rosenzweig, in The Atlantic, May 4, 2025

Distressing Foreign Affairs Day,  by Mark Fitzpatrick, May 3, 2025

The U.S. Must not Gift Crimea to Putin, by David Kramer, April 30, 2025

A New National and International Security Threat: Trumpenomics,  by Susan Koch April 27, 2025

America’s Munich,  by Susan Koch, April 24, 2025

Appeasement Cloaked as Negotiation,by Bill Piekney, April 24, 2025

We are on a Littered Road to an Unknown Location, by Bill Piekney, April 22, 2025

“America First” – An Idea That Actually Endangers America, by Tom Wolfson, April 18, 2025

Alliances Are Not Pay-to-Play Schemes, by Diane Blust, April 11, 2025

The US can’t afford to dismantle DHS’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, by Mary Ellen Callahan, in The Hill, April 11, 2025

A Looming Apparition, by Bill Piekney, April 09, 2025

What Is Happening to the First Amendment?, by Susan Koch, April 7, 2025

Silencing America’s Voice to the World, by Susan Koch, April 07, 2025

The Impact of the Signal Security Breach, According to a Former Intelligence Officer, Steven Cash, NPR Audio and Transcript,          March 29, 2025

Congress Must Stop the Weaponization of Personal Security Clearances, by Bill Leonard, in JustSecurity, March 11, 2025

Trump’s Whisper from Moscow: Coincidence or Destiny?, by Jon Sipher, in Tomorrow’s Affairs, March 5, 2025

Firing the ‘Conscience’ of the Military, Getting rid of the military’s top lawyers is not exactly a sign that the Trump administration wants to follow the law, by Paul Rosenzweig, March 4, 2025

Trump Ukraine meeting puts US security in jeopardy, by Robert Cekula in the Bangor Daily News, March 3, 2025