How the coronavirus crisis is a dress rehearsal for combatting climate change
The response to the new coronavirus so far isn’t exactly inspiring confidence in how we’d handle much greater global threats.
The response to the new coronavirus so far isn’t exactly inspiring confidence in how we’d handle much greater global threats.
The word “historic” gets tossed around to describe carefully scripted performances, “pseudo-events,” that we choose to treat as the stuff of history.
We all know Richard Grenell as a Twitter troll and Trump loyalist, but his work for foreign entities and governments has largely gone unreported.
The Senate has given Trump a green-light to do pretty much whatever he wants. He’s now taking aim at the intel community.
If Donald Trump is reelected, it’s likely a hardliner akin to former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will become president of Iran in 2021.
All Donald Trump has done is make the lives of civilians in Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela miserable.
Donald Trump’s use of Pentagon spending and military assistance for political gain has been hiding in plain sight since he entered the Oval Office.
It’s entirely possible that the intelligence community felt pressure from Team Trump to blame Iran, without sufficient evidence, for a recent attack on a military base in Iraq.
Support for international organizations and multilateralism remains high despite Donald Trump’s rhetoric.
Donald Trump never campaigned on cutting Medicare and Social Security and give the savings to the Pentagon. But that’s exactly what he has proposed to do.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t want to go to jail so he’s doing anything and everything he can to hold onto power.
The UAE joined the Arab League statement rejecting the proposal, yet UAE officials in DC applauded it and attended the launch event at the White House.
Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ speech condemned Palestinians for terrorism and praised Israel for peace — all while ignoring Israel’s own violent history.
There’s nothing in this ‘plan’ that the Palestinians will accept.
The U.S. may have exacerbated the power imbalance further in Israel’s favor but it will not have compelled Palestinians to abandon their own rights and freedoms.
Foreign influence in American democracy has been around a lot longer than Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
If George W. Bush and Barack Obama sowed the seeds of the American chaos machine, Donald Trump represents the first true madman at the wheel of state, thanks to his volatile temperament, profound ignorance, and crippling insecurity.
The viability of the two-state solution evaporates as annexation of the West Bank becomes more normalized.
Why does the Trump administration keeping giving Mohammed bin Salman a free pass?
President Trump is continuing to paint himself into a corner where war with Iran is the only way out.
Israel played no public role in Qassem Soleimani’s death but it sees an opportunity.