Trump’s inspector general purge and the death of dissent
In the best of times, dissenting against policies or practices in a federal agency is an uphill battle. In the emerging reality, dissenters will see only defeat and danger ahead.
In the best of times, dissenting against policies or practices in a federal agency is an uphill battle. In the emerging reality, dissenters will see only defeat and danger ahead.
Suspending all sanctions now will not only help combat the coronavirus, but it will also create the conditions to resolve our differences diplomatically.
While the Trump administration touts its maximum pressure campaign as a route to peace in the Middle East, Iran’s increased hostilities prove it wrong.
Despite the need to focus on combating the coronavirus, the Trump administration is moving forward with arms sales that can provide both the tools for and the tacit acceptance of, repressive regimes around the world.
The White House has consistently deluded hardline elements of the Venezuelan opposition with the possibility of a quick and easy military solution.
Shifting the approach to focus on shared humanitarian interests on the ground can open the door to cooperation with Russia, maintain Western influence in Syria, and facilitate the rebuilding of a war-torn country.
Hostility has failed, and twenty-first century threats demand that we cooperate with the rival we need now more than ever.
Disputes over the origins of and fall out from the new novel coronavirus have supercharged American hawks into pushing for all-out confrontation with China.
Former Trump national security adviser HR McMaster’s essay calling for the U.S. to take a more confrontational stance on China falls flat.
Congress should continually remind Trump that the American people don’t want a war with Iran.
Out of context whispers of intelligence are like catnip to reporters and sometimes high ranking military officials weaponize it to advance their preferred policy positions.
Lockdowns are not only aggravating conflict around the world, but they’re also making it more difficult for local peacebuilders to make key connections to mitigate it.
Two years ago, on May 8, 2018, the Trump administration withdrew unilaterally from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly called the Iran nuclear deal, and then imposed “maximum pressure” sanctions on Iran.
U.S. primacy increasingly no longer reflects the realities in a region where traditional American partners no longer concern themselves with finding common cause with Washington.
A new report finds that the Trump administration has increased the global nuclear threat through policy failures and mismanagement.
The old paradigm that has served as the foundation of the U.S.-Saudi relationship over the previous 75 years — security for Riyadh in exchange for reliable oil supplies for Washington — is no longer as applicable as it once was.
Regime change proponents are trying to use an expiring arms embargo to prevent the next president from reentering the Iran nuclear deal.
For Americans, V-E Day marked the beginning of “our times.” The Covid-19 pandemic may signal that our times are now coming to an end.
We don’t just need foreign policy experts, we need to challenge the foundation of the bipartisan consensus that has ravaged U.S. foreign policy.
Imagine an alternate history after WWII where Hawaii broke away from a decimated United States and sought security guarantees from China.
The pressure being exerted on the intelligence agencies about the Wuhan lab is reminiscent of pressures that earlier administrations exerted to hunt for material in support of their favored hypotheses, including hypotheses used to sell wars.