Why Taiwan’s defense is in the American national interest
Just 38 percent of Americans “support deploying US troops to defend Taiwan from a military attack by China” according to…
Biden chickens out on Ukraine and NATO
Shortly before his trip to Europe and the NATO summit in Lithuania, President Biden told CNN that he does not…
Don’t deprive Americans of July 4 fireworks
The Fourth of July is an opportunity to reflect upon the miracle that is the founding of the United States,…
Trump’s ‘defense’ undermined by Mark Meadows memoir
Donald Trump’s defense that he was just holding up “newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles” always came across rather far-fetched,…
RFK Jr. is as mad on foreign policy as he is on vaccines
Did you know that the Biden’s State Department is run by neocons? Or that Biden’s foreign policy is “bellicose, pugnacious…
Umbria: Italy’s underrated gem
Nestled in the Apennine Mountains due east of Rome is the region of Umbria, a hidden gem at the heart…
America’s undersea lifelines
It is out of sight and usually out of mind, but recent events are forcing Americans to focus on the…
Sudan and the decline of American courage
Over the weekend, US special forces evacuated American embassy personnel from Sudan in a nearly day-long operation. The evacuation came…
The dollar is here to stay
Reports of the death of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency are greatly exaggerated. Fortunately for America, while…
Why Haiti’s problems are America’s problems
Haiti tends to not get much attention in the American press, but it should. The country has descended into a…
The Paraguay predicament over Taiwan
On April 30, Paraguayans will go to the polls to select a new president. Though elections in the landlocked South…
Why South Africa is cozying up to Russia and China
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine opened the most dramatic divide between East and West since the Cold War. Most of…
The virtues of American ‘nation-building’
Newly minted senator JD Vance of Ohio has wasted no time in extolling the virtues of a soft isolationist foreign…
Enes Kanter Freedom on LeBron, Erdoğan and the earthquake
Basketball player and human rights activist Enes Kanter Freedom was invited as Leader Kevin McCarthy’s guest of honor to the…
China is playing the US for fools over the spy balloon
The Chinese balloon debacle has shone a light on America’s security vulnerabilities, but it has also revealed just how audacious…
Trump is wrong that the US should negotiate peace in Ukraine
The GOP’s foreign policy doves and soft isolationists have grown stronger, with 40 percent of “Republican and Republican-leaning independents” saying…
Democracy in Peru is under attack
For over a month, Peru has been in a state of near-constant unrest. In December, as the legislature threatened to…
Why Sweden and Finland still haven’t joined NATO
Sweden and Finland officially applied to join NATO last May, overturning their long-standing policies of neutrality. If their membership goes…
The January 6 Committee’s recommended charges against Trump, explained
The Select Committee to Investigate January 6 announced Monday that it would refer former president Donald Trump for charges to…
NATO acquits itself well in the Poland missile crisis
Mid-afternoon Tuesday, a missile struck the town of Przewodow in eastern Poland close to the Ukrainian border, killing two. The…
Time for the GOP to call out Democrats’ primaries meddling
If there is one lesson the Republican Party needs to learn from this year’s elections, it is that fringe politics…
Massachusetts Republicans pay the price for Trumpism
Massachusetts voters are known to be pragmatic. Despite being one of the most liberal states in the country, Massachusetts has…
Republican support for Ukraine is fading
There is much that is uncertain about Tuesday’s elections, but it seems all but certain that the GOP will take…
Germany needs to break its dependence on China
Back in February, Olaf Scholz gave one of the most important speeches in his country’s post-Cold War history. In it, the German…
America’s military isn’t ready for a war with China
China’s 20th Party Congress concluded on October 23, and President Xi Jinping secured a norm-breaking third term as leader of…
