How media language encourages the left to support wars, coups and intervention
Media invoke the language of human rights and humanitarianism to convince those to the left of center to accept, if not support, U.S. actions abroad.
Media invoke the language of human rights and humanitarianism to convince those to the left of center to accept, if not support, U.S. actions abroad.
Chinese and American leaders are now playing a game of chicken that couldn’t be more dangerous for both countries and the planet.
The Afghan War made a pivotal and particularly mournful contribution, definitively exposing as delusionary claims of U.S. military supremacy.
The administration’s approach of “multilateral restoration” has many virtues compared to four years of MAGA. But it has considerable shortcomings as well.
Amid Washington chatter about the future of U.S.-Saudi relations, the kingdom has launched an unprecedented public diplomacy campaign.
The Biden administration seems to think that China is a problem like Covid-19 that can be managed simply by being the un-Trump.
Going all in on a military, economic, and cultural competition with China — and forging a wafer-thin bipartisan consensus to do so — is the height of folly.
In Washington, members of the foreign policy elite recite stale bromides, even as they divert attention from a dead past to which they remain devoted.
Lavrov is certain to want to capitalize on Mr. Biden’s rattling of Middle Eastern cages amid perceptions that recalibration of relations with Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. needs to swiftly re-energize diplomacy with Iran rather than be sucked into new tit-for-tat military strikes.
The US can avoid its past mistakes by focusing on human rights, rather than countering Russia or China.
Catholics and progressives sent letters to Biden this week pushing him to engage with Iran.
The Biden administration’s goal of building an international coalition to confront and “contain” China is at odds its goal of addressing climate change.
President Carter’s 4-decade-old pledge to safeguard Persian Gulf oil has bogged the US down in the Middle East.
The forever wars of the 21st century have had a similar effect on our society as Vietnam did more than 50 years ago. Not good.
But they’re wrong and after decades of failed sanctions to bring the regime to heel, it’s time for ‘maximum diplomacy.’
Can Moscow and Washington find common cause against the global scourges of nuclear weapons, climate change, and pandemic?
Keeping US troops there beyond the May 1 deadline won’t do anything to help intra-Afghan peace talks.
Most of the suffering doesn’t happen in the moment of combat amid the bullets, bombs, and IEDs on America’s foreign battlefields.
Hundreds of experts have signed a letter supporting Rob Malley after Iran deal opponents try to torpedo his appointment.
But a new rule may clear the air.