What the coronavirus can teach us about nuclear weapons
The United States is about to embark on a plan to spend more than $1 trillion on nuclear weapons when the threats we face are climate change, pandemic, and economic upheaval.
The United States is about to embark on a plan to spend more than $1 trillion on nuclear weapons when the threats we face are climate change, pandemic, and economic upheaval.
Huayi Zhang didn’t just work for top Trump donor Robert Mercer. He bankrolled Trumpist media like his old boss, too.
Attacking the Chinese over the coronavirus crisis will only lead to increased tensions and a weaker U.S. economy.
The pandemic is likely to accelerate changes in the Middle Eastthat were already beginning to happen, or were inherent in existing conditions.
An obscure law firm’s ties to Trump aside, revoking Chinese sovereign immunity is a bad idea.
The pressure being exerted on the intelligence agencies about the Wuhan lab is reminiscent of pressures that earlier administrations exerted to hunt for material in support of their favored hypotheses, including hypotheses used to sell wars.
In some ways the COVID-19 pandemic is but a dress rehearsal for climate change, and the world has been granted a golden opportunity to change its ways before the worst is upon us.
United Against Nuclear Iran has named and shamed companies conducting humanitarian trade with Iran, but now a UANI senior advisor says Iran needs help fighting the coronavirus and stopping its spread.
A UN aid and relief agency is ready to offer its support, all it needs is the funding to administer it.
While the world is facing a pandemic, Turkey is expanding its regional influence.
Washington hawks are taking bad faith to a whole new level in their quest for regime change in Tehran.
While the coronavirus has accelerated Bernie-ism to take shape economically, it’s his foreign policy ideas that are the future of the U.S. abroad.
By choosing an “America First” brand of exceptionalism and showing haughty disdain to the views and interests of its allies, the United States risks entering this new era in a much weakened position.
It was easy for Trump to dismiss the WHO because the UN has been a political punching bag in the US for so long.
The United States’ expensive national security apparatus has been conspicuously useless in efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Algeria provides an example of the challenges the coronavirus poses to Arab authoritarian regimes. COVID-19 might outpace their capacity to adapt.
The MEK won’t let its members leave their camp in Albania to seek medical care and the MEK won’t let health works inside.
The Quincy Institute’s Rachel Esplin Odell explains that punitive action against Beijing right now will only undermine U.S. economic interests — after a month that saw more 22 million Americans lose their jobs.
COVID-19 has impacted countries in the region in different ways but their paths forward will be equally challenging.
Will China continue its economic rise? And will all U.S. leaders finally realize that climate change is truly an existential challenge?
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies gives Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo the ammo they need to see to it that Iran sees no relief during the COVID-19 crisis.