Azerbaijan, the ostensibly pro-Western and secular dictatorship in the Caucasus, likes to depict itself as a bastion of religious tolerance, a bulwark against Islamist terrorism, and an ally in the West’s efforts to free itself from energy dependence on hostile powers. Baku’s cynicism toward its Jewish and Christian populations is well-established. It subsidizes, if not […]

Some 42 million people will miss food assistance payments this weekend due to the Democratic Party‘s federal government shutdown. There is no reason for this to happen. Senate Republicans have voted to prevent it more than a dozen times. They have also always been willing to discuss extending expiring Affordable Care Act bonus subsidies in […]