Kevin McCarthy’s misguided war on Ilhan Omar
She has been in the crosshairs of hawks for years — and not just because of her positions on Israel.
She has been in the crosshairs of hawks for years — and not just because of her positions on Israel.
Harsh economic penalties rarely, if ever, work to change a targeted regime’s behavior; so why do we still use them?
The looming energy crisis seems to have Biden thinking more clearly about the status quo when it comes to Nicholas Maduro.
Efforts to avoid sanctions by promoting an alternative to US-dominated financial networks has its challenges. But that could change.
In a wide-ranging hearing, experts and members of Congress took a close look at whether this foreign policy tool is even effective.
If Americans want to show solidarity with the people of these countries, the best thing we can do is stop standing on their necks.
Even if the JCPOA restart falls through and sanctions remain in place, a warming is happening in Tehran’s immediate neighborhood.
Readers are stunned at what 12 months of COVID have done to US children. Imagine how a generation of Iraqis have fared under our wars.
To avoid sanctions, countries are actively reopening moribund routes and creating greater connectivity across the Middle East and Asia.
The USSR prevented its citizens from traveling to the West during the Cold War, mimicking that now would be entirely counterproductive.
The West has possibly helped to spark a destabilizing partnership that will be difficult to contain once set into motion.
Today’s announcement suggests Biden is doubling down on maximum pressure while the nuclear deal is all but withering on the vine. (Video)
Washington’s acrimonious relationship with Caracas serves neither country’s interests, opening up oil trade can help bring down prices.
Open ended economic penalties with ill-defined goals hardly ever change the behavior of their targets.
20 million are going hungry as frozen funds and equally frozen diplomacy keep this country in a frightening state of limbo.
The country’s population of 25 million unvaccinated people offers COVID an extraordinary opportunity not only to spread but also to mutate.
Reorganizing global trade and markets based on security interests and ‘values’ could have significant costs
While it may seem politically convenient to blame the 8-week invasion for everything, it is supremely deceptive to do so.
The US should learn lessons from the Cold War when economic embargoes left it increasingly isolated.
The ‘great expropriation’ will come to be regarded as a turning point — one which the great powers of the world will likely regret.
The Taliban takeover pummeled the country’s economic sector; how can the international community help the Afghan people survive?