Tom Nichols
He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught for 25 years, and an instructor at the Harvard Extension School. He has served as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts House and the U.S. Senate. He writes about international security, nuclear weapons, Russia, and the challenges to democracy in the United States and around the world—along with occasional contrarian views on popular culture. His books include The Death of Expertise and Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy. He is also a five-time undefeated Jeopardy champion.
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Chris Hondros / Getty I Supported the Invasion of Iraq
But a just cause doesn’t make for a just war.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump Did It Again
If arrested, he’s called on “protesters” to come to his defense.
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Liane Hentscher / HBO Who Would You Be If the World Ended?
The Last of Us asks a hard question that is about more than love.
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Joe Raedle / Getty DeSantis Will Betray Ukraine for MAGA Votes
The two GOP front-runners are selling out a democracy at war.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Mike Pence Is Warning Us About Trump
But we’re too complacent to hear it.
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Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty The Ugly Elitism of the American Right
No one hates ordinary people like the Republicans and their media enablers do.
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Mark Peterson / Redux The January 6 Whitewash Will Backfire
Tucker Carlson and the GOP are trying to erase a dark day. Their public-relations gamble is already failing.
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Alex Wong / Getty How Are Trump Supporters Still Doing This?
It’s past time to stop treating Trump like a normal politician.
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AFP / Getty To Save Ukraine, Defeat Russia and Deter China
The future of the world order is at stake.
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DeSid / Getty The War in Ukraine Is the End of a World
A shroud is settling over the dreams many of us had at the end of the 20th century.
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Getty Putin’s Desperate Hours
The Russian president is frantic and lashing out in defeat.
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Andy Kropa / Getty The Real Elitists Are at Fox News
Republicans and their media enablers despise ordinary Americans.
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Royal Navy Official Photographer / Imperial War Museums … Radio Atlantic: This Is Not Your Parents’ Cold War
It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues. How should we be thinking about what comes next?
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Win McNamee / Getty The Pointless Nikki Haley Campaign
She can’t restore sanity to the GOP. No candidate can.
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Drew Angerer / Getty What’s Going on Over North America?
Fighting the eyes in the sky
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Mike Windle / Getty for Bethesda Society Needs Scary Computer Games
I am Player One, and I am always ready.
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Michal Cizek / AFP via Getty Czech Voters Deal a Blow to Populism
The election of Petr Pavel is important to Czechs—and to Americans.
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Octavio Jones / Getty Florida Has a Right to Destroy its Universities
If Ron DeSantis wants to gut Florida’s public colleges, that’s up to Floridians.
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Trent Parke / Magnum The Narcissism of the Angry Young Men
What to do about the deadly misfits among us? First, recognize the problem.
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Amanda Edwards / Getty Yes, You Have to Be Smart to Play Jeopardy
But it’s a peculiar kind of smart.
