Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s soft approach to confronting criminal groups is not working. In fact, it seems to be backfiring. Last week’s wave of violence […]
Tag: foreign policy
Aug. 21 letters to the editor
Keeping up with the times is important A recent article in the Washington Post described President Biden’s pause to use outside experts to help him work through […]
What does Afghanistan look like after one year?
by Colin P. Clarke One year after the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, the country is an even more dangerous place. The Taliban now serves as the […]
Match rhetoric, action on Africa policy
by Samar Al-Bulushi and Lina Benabdallah Last week Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released the Biden administration’s long-awaited Africa strategy during his visit to South Africa. Perhaps […]
‘Not the China of 1995’: Military escalation in the Taiwan Strait would be perilous
by Bonnie Kristian China’s live-fire military exercises in the waters near Taiwan, which began Thursday, are a worrisome escalation from Beijing. The People’s Liberation Army has gradually […]
China poses a threat to whole world
by Jay Ambrose Chinese President Xi Jinping recently warned the United States not to “play with fire” over Taiwan. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided to play […]
Al-Zawahri killing gives Afghanistan an opening with U.S.
by Bobby Ghosh The U.S. drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul on Sunday caught the Taliban leadership both red-handed and flat-footed. Their promises to prevent […]
Tunisia’s democracy is collapsing. Biden shouldn’t just stand by
by Bobby Ghosh On the day Tunisia’s democracy died, it fell to a State Department spokesperson to deliver the Biden administration’s mealy-mouthed pieties. Asked about the July […]
Here’s the real problem with Joe Biden’s reversal on Saudi Arabia
by Bonnie Kristian President Joe Biden took a defensive tone in the run-up to his visit to Saudi Arabia last Friday. “I have never been quiet about […]
Putin’s new war crime
Starving world’s poor by blocking grain exports by Trudy Rubin You may think you’ve seen every horror in Russia’s kit of war crimes against Ukraine (short of […]
