by jpitney | Apr 19, 2024 | Congress, Foreign Policy, House of Representatives
Andrew Solender at Axios: House Democrats made an extremely rare break with modern political norms on Thursday to rescue House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) foreign aid package. Why it matters: It’s the starkest evidence to date that the GOP’s...
by jpitney | Apr 4, 2024 | Foreign Policy, Reagan, Russia, Ukraine
At Puck, Julia Ioffe interviews Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Your absence was definitely felt at Munich this year and some of your colleagues in the CODEL were saying, “He can’t come, he has a primary fight.” Your...
by jpitney | Feb 20, 2024 | Foreign Policy, Russia, Ukraine
Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer at WP: As World War II raged in Europe, Republicans initially opposed U.S. involvement even as proponents argued that helping allies would prevent direct aggression toward the U.S. — the same argument used today to support...
by jpitney | Feb 11, 2024 | Foreign Policy, Reagan
Ronald Reagan: As Western Europe, with help from our Marshall plan, rebuilt, all our nations began to face the nature of the Soviet threat to the democracies. And so, beginning with the Brussels treaty in 1948, which established the Western European Union, and then...
by jpitney | Jan 14, 2024 | Democracy, Foreign Policy, Public Opinion, Russia, Tocqueville, Ukraine
Tocqueville wrote: “Now, it is this clear perception of the future, based on judgment and experience, which must often be lacking in a democracy. The people feel more strongly than they reason; and if present ills are great, it is to be feared that they will...
by jpitney | Dec 6, 2023 | Conservative', Foreign Policy, Military, Republican
Kori Schake at Foreign Affairs: The United States needs a strong and vibrant Republican Party. To make a more coherent case for how it would solve the country’s problems, the party will have to clarify its foreign policy focus. Traditional conservative...
