Articles by Robert Zaller

People these days are talking about whether a two-state solution is possible between Israelis and Palestinians, as they do after each fresh outbreak of violence…

Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw American soldiers from Afghanistan before Sept. 11 is not an end to the war in Afghanistan itself, a 40-year conflict…

When I moved to Philadelphia in August of 1987 to take up a position at Drexel University, the ashes on the MOVE bombing had hardly…

What America does, the world sees. The trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd was broadcast internationally, and it was not simply…

“The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy” —  so General Omar Bradley described Douglas MacArthur’s push…

The Second Amendment to the Constitution is among the most debated 30 words in American history: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security…

Be careful whom you honor.  The Swedish Academy gave its Nobel Prize in Literature to Gunter Grass, at the time generally recognized as Germany’s most…

“Socialism” (or its even scarier cognate, communism) was for a good part of the 20th century the equivalent of what COVID has become for us,…

Spring has arrived, and a responsible federal government is back in Washington, D.C. We’d all like to get back to business, namely dealing with a…

The story of party politics in America is a tangled one, but that of the past 50 years is particularly instructive. It has been during…