With tensions in Crimea continuing to swell, so too has friction between the United States and Russian governments. On Monday, President Obama issued an executive order instituting travel bans and freezing the assets of Russian government officials believed to be...
More than 90 percent of Crimean voters have voted to join Russia. Putin and the rest of Moscow are praising the power of democracy, however disingenuously, and Obama and all of Washington are condemning the referendum as an illegal act. As has been true throughout...
When I boarded the plane to Cairo, Egypt, to make sure everything was in place for the women’s delegation headed to Gaza, I had no reason to think I’d end up in a jail cell at the Cairo airport and then violently deported. The trip was in response to a call from women...
Imagine you commit a heinous crime. Then imagine that, once facing charges in court, you're allowed to withhold incriminating evidence brought forth by the prosecutors, keeping the jury in the dark about the details of your lawbreaking. Further, imagine you commit...
Something sinister is brewing around and below al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli campaign to strip the Mosque of its Muslim Arab identity. This time around, however, the stakes are much higher. The status of...
The key to being taken seriously in Washington is to condemn other countries for their failures, crimes, and shortcomings and to praise the United States of America. One should never entertain the notion that the U.S. should be condemned for human rights abuses on the...
Imad Abdullah Hassan, a Yemeni detainee in Guantanamo that has spent 12 years in a cage without ever being charged with a crime, is suing President Obama. He says the forced feeding he has been subjected to in order to disrupt his hunger strike amounts to torture. At...
Edward Snowden spoke today via video feed to an audience at this year's South by Southwest. Here is the full discussion:
When news hit last week that China's defense spending will increase by 12.2 percent this year to $132 billion, pundits and politicians told us to be scared. I'm not: Via Ian Bremmer in Politico. Note that this is using a conservative estimate of U.S. military and...
Last week, I argued in a piece at Reason that Russia did not decide to intervene militarily in Ukraine because of alleged "weakness" on the part of U.S. foreign policy, despite what hawks would have us believe. The talking point, especially but not exclusively from...
