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 | Mar 22, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives, Ukraine
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Discharge petitions are seldom successful. According to data compiled by Brookings Institution senior fellow Sarah Binder, of the over 639 discharge petitions introduced from 1935 to 2022, roughly 4 percent have been successful. Binder...
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 | 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 | Sep 2, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
From AFP: Russia has added respected journalist and Nobel prize co-recipient Dmitry Muratov to its list of foreign agents, a label authorities commonly use to stifle critics. The move targeting the editor of Russia’s top independent publication, Novaya Gazeta, is part...
by jpitney | Aug 26, 2023 | China, Russia, Ukraine
Nathan Gardels at Noema: Sometimes your best friend can be your worst enemy. This is the case today with the “no limits” relationship of Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping. Not only has Putin’s invasion of Ukraine...
