The Haitian interim prime minister recently requested U.S. military assistance following the assassination of the president, but there is significant popular opposition to having US forces in Haiti:Intellectuals and members of Haiti’s civil society quickly criticized...
Janan Ganesh has written another exceptionally odd column about U.S.-China rivalry:And so an era of non-state enemies was always going to be awkward for the US. A superpower tussle is a beguiling return to the familiar. Washington’s enthusiasm for the China contest is...
The Biden administration’s effort to reenter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is languishing, and there is an increasing likelihood that the nuclear deal won’t be salvaged:Hopes for a quick re-entry to the accord that Donald Trump abandoned have dimmed...
Russia and China have renewed their treaty of friendship, and their respective leaders claimed that the relationship was stronger than ever:Beijing and Moscow have moved to consolidate ties by renewing a 20-year-old friendship treaty, weeks after the Russian and US...
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by gunmen earlier today. The last time that a Haitian president was assassinated, the U.S. intervened militarily and then occupied the country for the next 19 years. There is absolutely no good reason why...
From The American Conservative:Bruce Riedel calls for the U.S. to pressure the Saudi coalition to end their blockade of Yemen:For the war to end, the Biden administration will need to lay out a political process that entices the Houthis to a ceasefire. A good place to...
From The American Conservative:Laura Rozen reports on the Iranian announcement that their government will cease its voluntary implementation with the IAEA’s Additional Protocol next week as part of the legislation adopted following the murder of Mohsen...
From The American Conservative:Peter Beinart makes a good case that broad sanctions regimes are immoral and destructive:Why are policies that have proved so ineffective and immoral so hard to undo? Because abandoning them would require admitting hard truths: North...
From The American Conservative:Yesterday the president delivered his first foreign policy address since taking office, and he chose to give it at the State Department. The location underscored Biden’s message that “diplomacy is back,” and the visit...
From The American Conservative: Annelle Sheline comments on the encouraging news that President Biden will shortly announce the end of U.S. support for Saudi coalition “offensive operations” in Yemen: Biden’s team may see the withdrawal of US support...
