This article was written by the same distinguished scholar whose piece we initially featured (found below) on the topic of Iran. However, this article has been written after the Iranian response, and both pieces are worth reading (Jan. 8th, 2019)
"President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The president’s approach has the support neither of America’s allies nor of its strategic rivals, China and Russia. And his policy – made even more confrontational by the shooting of a high-ranking Iranian official – has boxed him into a situation where, short of dramatic reversal, Washington and Tehran are edging close to war," writes Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"I watched as the intelligence was cooked, as principals in the George W. Bush government were sold by that intelligence or helped to warp that intelligence... I’m watching the same thing again," says Lawrence Wilkerson, retired United States Army colonel, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005 (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990. Personally, I would rate the results somewhere between deeply disappointing and flat-out abysmal," writes Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"Are generic medications safe?" asks C. Michael White, University of Connecticut (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"As a cardiologist and professor of nutrition, I’d like to clear up some of the confusion with five myths and five facts about meat," writes Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"What are the top jobs in the U.S. for the year 2019," asks Ronald E. Riggio, Claremont McKenna College (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"Not only has secularism failed to continue its steady global march but countries as varied as Iran, India, Israel, Algeria and Turkey have either had their secular governments replaced by religious ones, or have seen the rise of influential religious nationalist movements," writes Peter Harrison, University of Queensland (Jan. 8th, 2020)
"While our brains are closer to the brains of other primates, there are some aspects of the human mind that are difficult to study even in these near relatives," writes Joseph LeDoux, New York University (Jan. 8th, 2020)