The 2024 Legislative session is underway, and the League of Women Voters is tracking bills and preparing for a Legislative Scorecard like the one published for the […]
Tag: human rights
PGA merger with LIV Golf is only the beginning
by Adam Minter Human rights and golf were rarely mentioned in the same breath until the launch last year of LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed tour organized to […]
Policy at a crossroads in Afghanistan
by Daniel DePetris Nearly 21 months after the U.S. withdrawal from a two-decadelong misadventure in Afghanistan, an increasingly polarized Washington continues to ask the same old questions. […]
Saudi ‘golfwashing’ isn’t working, and Americans should be proud of that
by Weifeng Zhong Two worlds collide in professional golf’s biggest event this week as top players from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed upstart league, […]
Jimmy Carter still changing the world
by Nicholas Goldberg The Carter Center announced last week that Jimmy Carter was entering hospice care and would forgo further medical treatment for his various ailments, choosing […]
America needs to try harder to match its foreign policy to its morals
by Nicholas Goldberg I once went to the village of Koreme in Iraqi Kurdistan and walked along a dirt road past a little brick school and a […]
Holding corps and abusive countries accountable for slave-labor use
Various prominent U.S. corporations, including Walmart and Intel, might be shying away from principled stances condemning foreign uses of slavery and child labor for the production of […]
The EU’s awkward Hungary issue
by Elizabeth Shackelford On April 3, Hungary’s anti-liberal, ultranationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, won a fourth term. While the West remains fixated on the war next door […]
Conservatives are about to lose the 21st century
They have never once been right. Did you ever notice that? Do you ever think about it? Never once. Oh, in matters of, say, foreign affairs or […]
Biden’s $7B betrayal of Afghanistan
by Ruth Pollard Out of all the actions the Biden administration could have taken on Afghanistan, commandeering the nation’s foreign currency reserves is, to put it mildly, […]