Biden’s Push for a Bizarre, Bad Deal Continues

Biden’s bizarre and wrongheaded push for a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia is getting a lot of coverage this week. The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal both published bigstories about it today, and the reports agree on the general outlines of the deal...

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The Insanity of the Venezuela Hawks

Marco Rubio demands that the US fully embraces the policy that already failed and caused massive suffering:To regain foreign policy coherence on Venezuela, we must return to the maximum pressure campaign of the Trump administration.It is a sign of how deranged the...

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DeSantis and America’s Intervention Addiction

The growing enthusiasm for a military option in Mexico just shows how addicted to military intervention many Republicans are.Ron DeSantis is trying to catch up with the other Republican hawks that want to attack Mexico:DeSantis, who’s trailing Trump in national polls...

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End the Senseless Economic War on Venezuela

Some House Democrats, including Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, have called on the Biden administration to provide sanctions relief for Venezuela:A group of House Democrats called on the Biden administration to ease sanctions...

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The Evils of Economic War

Francisco Rodriguez reports the findings of a new paper on the destructive effects of sanctions:The evidence decisively shows that sanctions make living conditions worse in target countries. I looked at 32 academic papers that estimated their effect. Of these, 30...

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