After Trump vetoed the Iran war powers resolution, Congress must continue to act
Congress should continually remind Trump that the American people don’t want a war with Iran.
Congress should continually remind Trump that the American people don’t want a war with Iran.
If there’s a silver lining to Israel’s impending annexation of the West Bank, it’s that it will force the world confront more directly the reality of what Israel has been doing in the occupied territories.
Donald Trump withdrew from the multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, known as the JCPOA, in May 2018, and reinstated sanctions against the country.
Trump botched his COVID-19 response disastrously, so now he’s giving anti-China conspiracy theories the full weight of the U.S. government.
Huayi Zhang didn’t just work for top Trump donor Robert Mercer. He bankrolled Trumpist media like his old boss, too.
While the U.S. fiddles with bad faith on Iran, Europe has an opportunity to lead and provide a better path forward.
An obscure law firm’s ties to Trump aside, revoking Chinese sovereign immunity is a bad idea.
In order to pile more sanctions on Iran, the U.S. has to be part of the Iran nuclear deal. So now the Trump administration is pretending it never left.
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.
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 Europeans have had to deal with increasingly authoritarian regimes quashing opposition and undermining the rule of law. Now they are hearing echoes of such misuse of the law on the other side of the Atlantic.
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.
Joe Biden and some of his supporting super PACs are choosing to adopt, rather than challenge, the anti-China premise of the Trump campaign’s attacks.
We should take German Chancellor Angela Merkel seriously when she said ‘the times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out.’
A forward-looking question to ask amid the current crisis is: will the inevitable highlighting of government’s necessary role in the crisis lead to greater recognition of the necessity of that role at other times?
Pulling funding for the World Health Organization follows Trump’s pattern of slowly dismantling multilateralism, which appears to be his ultimate goal.
Biden will lose the argument on China if he tries to run to Trump’s right.
The Trump administration is contributing to Iran’s COVID-19 crisis by refusing to suspend sanctions. But Iran’s self-imposed isolation is also a major factor.
The firing could be called a canary in the coal mine if Washington hadn’t already become littered with canary carcasses warning of a Trumpian dystopia devoid of truth and accountability.
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, Trump has gone from praising China one minute, to attacking China the next. That back and forth happens to mirror the views of some of his wealthiest supporters.