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Gaza UNRWA
Middle East

Official US Govt reports contradict Mike Waltz's rants against UNRWA

White House insists that aid must get to Gaza per the ceasefire but its ambassador is clinging to Israeli falsehoods about the only agency that can deliver it

Zbigniew Brzezinski Camp David Summit
Media

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Foreign policy prophet or blind man?

Ed Luce's ‘cradle to grave’ bio of President Carter’s grand strategist plumbs his hits and misses on Afghanistan and Russia and their impacts today

Donald Trump Davos 2026
QiOSK

Trump: We got a $1.5 trillion military budget. He’s (kinda) right.

His boast to Davos today wasn't off the mark if he combines these overflowing pots of national security funding

Meet Trump’s man in Greenland
Washington Politics

Meet Trump’s man in Greenland

Thomas Dans is the consummate MAGA policy influencer. Could he become America’s viceroy in the territory?

Ambassador Robert Hunter
Europe

RIP Amb. Robert Hunter, who warned about NATO expansion

His work in both the Carter and Clinton administrations reflected sober analysis and the pursuit of engaging Russia and Iran rather than isolating them

Trump Polk
Washington Politics

On Greenland, Trump wants to be like Polk

The president's motivation isn't security or money, it's manifest destiny