Tag: foreign policy
The Armageddon agenda
In early 2025, the next president, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will be making critical decisions regarding the future of the New START Treaty and the composition of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
The ghost of Hubert Humphrey is stalking Kamala Harris
Hubert Humphrey faced the choice to keep supporting the war or speak out for a change in 1968. Kamala Harris faces it now.
The double crisis of US foreign policy
U.S. hegemony is increasingly fragile, while U.S. exceptionalism is increasingly unsupportable.
What do voters want?
When voters in democratic states decide, democratically, that they’ve had enough of democracy, it’s not just throwing away a vote, it’s throwing away the vote.
Trusting the ‘five eyes’ only
To get some appreciation for Washington’s isolation in international affairs, just consider the wider world’s reaction to the administration’s stance on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
The United States is the main obstacle to peace in Palestine
What's the role of the United States in the crisis between Israel and Palestine.
Ukraine, double standards, and escalation management
The United States' restrictions on Ukrainian actions and its double standards vis a vis Israel are undermining international law.
The United States is an obstacle to peace in Gaza
“What we are doing today is very bad policy,” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on April 23. “We are aiding and abetting the destruction of the Palestinian people.”
Ukraine, Israel, and the incoherence of US foreign policy
The legislation that emerges from the U.S. Congress is often as ugly and unappetizing as the process that created it.
Round table on current US foreign policy: Militarism unhinged
How would you assess the most important aspects of current U.S. foreign policy?
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Hundreds dead from hunger in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to empty the strip
As children die from hunger and medicine shortages, global outrage mounts over what critics call a campaign of extermination in Gaza, enabled by U.S. policy and a vision of forced displacement.
Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands
DOGE cuts are killing Americans.
The country Trump seems dead set on imitating
The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...
New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.
States can take meaningful climate action, even without federal support: Study
The team also found that there was potential for state efforts to impact pollution in neighboring states.