by jpitney | May 13, 2022 | Foreign Policy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
Greg Norman at Fox News: A Russian lawmaker is warning Friday that recent comments from Poland’s leaders are encouraging Moscow to “put it in first place in the queue for denazification after Ukraine.” Russian State Duma Deputy Oleg Morozov,...
by jpitney | Nov 19, 2021 | Democracy, Foreign Policy
Anne Applebaum at The Atlantic: The centrality of democracy to American foreign policy has been declining for many years—at about the same pace, perhaps not coincidentally, as the decline of respect for democracy in America itself. The Trump presidency was a four-year...
by jpitney | Aug 16, 2021 | Foreign Policy
Afghan journalists are “absolutely petrified, particularly women journalists,” as the Taliban regains control of Afghanistan, CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports on “Reliable Sources.” Ward says these “courageous” journalists know...
by jpitney | Aug 11, 2021 | Biden, Democracy, Foreign Policy
From the White House: The President has said that the challenge of our time is to demonstrate that democracies can deliver by improving the lives of their own people and by addressing the greatest problems facing the wider world… In keeping this commitment,...
by jpitney | Nov 9, 2020 | Democracy, Foreign Policy, House of Representatives
From the House Democracy Partnership: A bipartisan commission of the U.S. House of Representatives, the House Democracy Partnership (HDP) works with countries around the world to support the development of effective, independent and responsive legislatures. Using...
by jpitney | Aug 21, 2020 | Congress, Deliberation, Foreign Policy, House of Representatives, Military, Oversight, Senate
At R Street, Casey Burgat looks at congressional oversight capacity on national security and foreign affairs. Here he examines the House Committees on Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, and Armed Services. [D]espite regular increases from 2003 through...
