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Venezuela oil US
Latin America

If done right, Trump's oil plans could benefit Venezuelans

But it would take major significant systematic changes both commercially and in the government, and it's unclear whether any of that is in the works

Trump and Lindsey Graham
Washington Politics

Does MAGA want Trump to ‘make regime change great again’?

The president went from praising ‘the wars we never get into’ to seeing how many the US can get into, and prominent members of his base are eating it up


Iraq War memorial wall
Latin America

Trump’s quest to kick America's ‘Iraq War syndrome’

Experts say the 'easy' Venezuela operation is reminiscent of George H.W. Bush's 1989 invasion of Panama, which in part served to bury the ghosts of Vietnam

Africa trade
QiOSK

House passes sweeping ‘duty free’ pact for African imports

This is one of those rare measures in which the Trump administration is supporting tax breaks, not tariffs, for the Global South

European Union
Europe

Sorry, the EU has no right to cry 'McCarthyism'

European elites have a consistency problem. They go wild over Trump sanctions on their digital rules yet do nothing about his punishment of Israel critics.

Trump will be sore when Cuba domino refuses to fall
Latin America

Trump will be sore when Cuba domino refuses to fall

But he shouldn't be surprised. American presidents have been predicting collapse there since 1959.