David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
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December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Democracy Needs Healthy Debates About War and Peace
By Jyotsna Naidu | August 2, 2023 If there’s one thing that should be subject to rigorous debate and the will of the people, it’s decisions about war and peace. Unfortunately, that’s not what we got with the huge military policy bill…
WILL THERE EVER BE JUSTICE FOR THE IRAQ WAR?
A world without accountability paved the way for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The wars in Iraq and Ukraine may differ, but both speak to the tragic realities of war. They also make a strong case for strengthening the rule of…
20 YEARS ON, WHAT DID THE IRAQ WAR TRULY COST?
The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back. By Peter Certo | March 15, 2023 Most of us who were alive then remember where we were…
Franz Marc Never Painted Again: The Case Against War
Because he died so young – only 36, still in the upward arc of his art – you won’t find a lot of Franz Marc’s creations in museums and galleries. But a painting in the modern art rooms in the…
OUR MILITARY BUDGET IS MORE LOPSIDED THAN EVER
Spending 12 times as much on our military as Russia didn’t prevent a war in Europe. It just deprived us of resources at home. By Lindsay Koshgarian | March 16, 2022 Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Congress recently announced a bipartisan budget…
The human cost of the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II
The Soviet Union spanned from the Pacific across Eastern Europe. After World War II ended, they kept moving, swallowing smaller Easter European states from Poland to Albania. Nearly 17 million of its citizens, around 15%, died in the war. Although…
America Would Never Do That. Or why you need to know about Operation Northwoods
Americans are very confident that they would know if their government fakes “terrorist attacks” and uses them in arguing for war. But Operation Northwoods tells us how wrong we can be. Fortunately, Operation Northwoods was shot down by President John…
How Excess Military Spending Blocks Building Back Better
Understanding why President Biden’s Build Back Better plan stalled requires consuming a big fat reality sandwich: The United States spends more on its military than the next eleven highest-spending countries combined and a much greater chunk of its economy than…
Op-Ed: The day an American GI became Saint Nicholas
It was the night before Christmas in the small Luxembourg town of Wiltz, as World War II paused one day. Throughout the town, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. But no stockings were hung by the chimney…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor