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providencemag.com A Broken Globe - Providence Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff recently broke a globe used by Dwight Eisenhower during WWII. It is hard to imagine a more fitting metaphor for the Trump administration's breaking of the U.S.-led... 
providencemag.com Foreign Policy as Farce and Folly - Providence With his recent decision to ease sanctions on Russian diesel in an effort to bring down fuel prices, Trump has abandoned any pretense of neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine War. He has chosen a side:... 
sagamoreinstitute.org Strait Jacket While Tehran is trying to drag the world back to an era of state-sanctioned piracy, trade tolls and throttled economic activity, Washington is trying to keep alive an American policy dating to the... 
providencemag.com A Prayer for All of Us - Providence Shot down over Iran, F-15E airman “Dude 44 Bravo” prayed for deliverance as he realized his parachute had not deployed. His trust in God offers an example for all Americans: in our worst moments, we... 
sagamoreinstitute.org Tariffs 101 For most Americans – especially those of us who aren’t experts in supply chains, offshoring or Smoot-Hawley – “tariff” is a mysterious, even foreign term. To dispel some of that, the following is a... 