Tag: foreign policy
Getting China wrong, yet again
A new Council on Foreign Relations report presents China in a distorted light.
In search of a Green New Foreign Policy
To save ourselves and reduce the United States’ harmful global footprint, we need new thinking, new institutions, and a fundamental reordering of priorities.
Bolton in Wonderland
John Bolton has a Haig-sized ego. He aspires to control the ebb and flow of foreign policy in the Trump administration.
Is a war with Iran on the horizon?
As the Trump administration accelerates its efforts to seek a confrontation, will they find an echo among Iranian hardliners who’d like nothing more than a face-off with the United States?
Trump’s bromance with Kim is gross, but let the love letters...
Despite the failed summit, relations between the U.S. and North Korea are much better than they were 18 months ago.
A swiftian modest proposal for the president
Or how to solve the border and China problems in one swell foop.
Following the foreign-policy money trail in Washington
How Middle Eastern powers fund think tanks.
The psychology of the wall
Wall are cropping up all over the world. But as with guns, the sense of safety and security that comes from a wall is almost entirely illusory.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.