Check out this article over on The Atlantic‘s website, The End of the American Century by George Packer. In it, Packer looks at the decline and fall of the American empire. He uses as his vehicle the life and career of the late Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the end of the Bosnian war. For him,…

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By Michael E. Berumen For nearly two years prior to the 2016 election, liberal commentators and analysts described Donald Trump’s supporters as disaffected white working-class voters or by similar appellations. These disaffected voters, they would observe, felt as though they had been left behind, that they were effectively disenfranchised and marginalized in society. They would…

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