Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Tag: foreign policy

America’s megalomaniac

With Trump, there’s no longer American foreign policy. There’s only Trump’s ego.

The dolls of militarism

From war hawks to chickenhawks.

Instead of reshaping domestic waste management, US asks China to lift...

"We hope that the U.S. can reduce and manage hazardous waste and other waste of its own and take up more duties and obligations."

Stumbling toward peace on the Korean Peninsula

The positive American response to the proposed meeting has so far been greeted with silence by the North Koreans.

How those Trump-Kim talks might go: A transcript

Trump's "art of the deal" is about to get its most high-profile test yet. The early prognosis is… not good.

Trump’s enablers should be shamed out of public life

The evidence is in: The "adults in the room" at the White House have enabled Trump's worst impulses, not checked them.

Trump is signaling an unprecedented right turn on foreign policy

From his feud with Bob Corker to his plans to renege on the Iran deal, Trump's mood swings mean a dangerous new era of foreign policy.

Bernie Sanders isn’t just anti-capitalist. Now he’s a voice against militarism,...

Sanders has at last revealed himself to be an American leader articulating a new and largely peaceable foreign policy.

Bernie Sanders opens a new foreign-policy debate

The most popular politician in America has now taken on the failed establishment consensus on national security as well as establishment domestic policy.

The president is a Ponzi scheme

Here and abroad, Trump's wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade.

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The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during an enforcement operation in Los Angeles, June 12, 2025. Photo: DHSgov (public domain)

ICE agent shoots delivery driver in Austin as officials question who will investigate

The Department of Homeland Security says it is leading the inquiry, with its Homeland Security Investigations unit in charge, a role the FBI has historically held, CBS News reported.
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.
A military pharmacy. Photo: U.S. Air Force / Airman Trevor Calvert

Secret Pfizer and Lilly contracts favor drugmakers over patients, records show

The deals let companies raise prices overseas while carving blockbuster obesity drugs out of required discounts.