by jpitney | Jan 17, 2026 | Foreign Policy, Military
Don Wolfensberger: Secretary of State Marco Rubio. ..was asked about the legal basis for the attack. He said it was the court ordered warrants for the arrests of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife on narco-terrorism charges. Rubio called the armed invasion “a law...
by jpitney | Dec 20, 2025 | Europe, Foreign Policy, Russia
Ron Nehring at FlashReport: There is an active effort underway, amplified daily by our foreign adversaries, to split the Western alliance by driving wedges between the United States and Europe. This is not new. Since NATO’s founding in 1949, Russia’s central...
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,...
