by Daniel DePetris The scenes tugged at the heart strings. Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter nabbed during a reporting assignment by Russian police last year […]
Tag: foreign diplomacy
U.S. must stop playing ‘Patriot games’
by Trudy Rubin After I questioned Israel’s endgame in Gaza in my previous column, a reader asked, “Do you know what President Joe Biden’s endgame is in […]
An Iranian hard-liner passes from the scene. What happens next?
by Daniel DePetris Last Sunday, Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s ultraconservative president, was flying home after participating in the opening of a new dam near the Iran-Azerbaijan border. But […]
‘Our tax dollars pay your salary’
by Michael Varga Two Americans were asking for a meeting with me. They had traveled from Alabama to Washington to lobby for more assistance to Lebanon, the […]
Schumer’s gambit against Netanyahu
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants Israel to hold new elections, and makes no secret that he thinks and hopes when they do, Bibi Netanyahu will be […]
U.S. retaliation for American deaths shouldn’t be driven by war fever
by Daniel DePetris Until this past weekend, the roughly 45,000 U.S. troops based in the Middle East were able to insulate themselves from the chaos of the […]
Covering Kissinger’s century
by Martin Schram President Richard Nixon was work-vacationing in his Western White House estate at San Clemente and not far away, the White House press corps was […]
Are pandas headed back to California to work their diplomatic magic?
They are not typical diplomatic envoys. They spend their time eating, snoozing, lollygagging in the grass and rolling in the snow. But the giant pandas that have […]
‘The Diplomat’ was diplomacy for dummies
The popular Netflix series “The Diplomat” has Keri Russell playing a woman who’s really sore that she’s been made American ambassador to the United Kingdom. Many Americans […]
Represent small town America in foreign diplomacy
by Darion Akins The connection between small town America and foreign affairs may not be immediately apparent, but there is a strong link between the two. While […]
