by jpitney | Aug 26, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Israel
Eric R. Mandel and CMC alum Betsy Berns Korn at The Jerusalem Post: Anti-Palestinian Racism is coming to America and a campus near you. But what is it, why now, and why is it so dangerous? APR is the latest evolution of anti-Zionism, rebranded in the language of civil...
by jpitney | Aug 17, 2025 | Canada, Foreign Policy, Mexico, Reagan, Russia, Trade
Ronald Reagan’s Announcement of Candidacy, November 13, 1979: On the foreign front, the decade of the 1980s will place severe pressures upon the United States and its allies. We can expect to be tested in ways calculated to try our patience, to confound...
by jpitney | Jul 13, 2025 | Congress, Foreign Policy, Presidency, War Power
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: In the Iran case last month, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced concurrent resolutions in their respective chambers prohibiting the president from going to war with Iran. Kaine...
by jpitney | Apr 1, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Journalism, Journalists, Voice of America
With the Voice of America falling silent, Rep. Young Kim said she worries the U.S. is ceding the airwaves to foreign dictators. “And we’re not there to counter that disinformation,” she said.https://t.co/FfUHguDH0n — Kris Cheng (@krislc) March 31,...
by jpitney | Mar 24, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Reagan
President Reagan, Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for Prime Minister Poul Schluter of Denmark, September 10, 1985 Denmark is an old friend and an ally in NATO and an active trading partner; ties between our two countries run long and deep. Denmark recognized the...
by jpitney | Mar 6, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Public Service
Robert D. Kaplan at Politico: America’s 41st president, George H. W. Bush, hated the word empire, but he knew how to run one. He was president at the moment the Berlin Wall fell: when the United States instantly became a unipolar power. His deft foreign policy made...
