Has Biden Botched Diplomacy With Iran?

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...

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The Problem With the ‘Contest with Autocrats’

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...

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Do Not Intervene in Haiti

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...

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The American Empire in Asia in the 1800s (video)

Historians declare that the American empire began with the Spanish-American war in 1898. It really began decades earlier when the US Navy formed the East India Squadron in 1835 that grew into of the Asiatic Squadron in 1868. American warships deployed to Asia to...

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