The White House’s Summit for Democracy has drawn harsh criticism of domestic issues and questions about the guest list. President Biden has said that the world stands at a historical “inflection point” in the contest between democracy and autocracy. WASHINGTON…
Tim Unes was helping to plan memorial events for Mr. Dole when it came to light that he had been subpoenaed by the committee investigating the Capitol riot. Elizabeth Dole and her husband, former Senator Bob Dole, in 20
A bipartisan group led by two former governors is urging President Biden to help an estimated 167,000
The New York Times regularly calls on Julian E. Barnes, occasionally assisted by other of his colleagues, to produce articles on the five-year-old non-story known as the Havana syndrome. Although this ingrained habit produces essentially the same article every time,…
Despite a disagreement over some amendments in the Senate, the US Congress is poised to pass a $778-billion military budget bill for 20
Taiwan is a problem. Historically separate from but linked to China, Taiwan was colonized by the Dutch and partially by the Spanish in the 17th century. Through a series of conflicts between aboriginal forces allied with the Ming dynasty and…
Emmanuel Macron at the Berlaymont HQ. France's agriculture minister has already argued that the EU should 'export its standards, and stop having foreign standards imposed on its own single market�
Twenty years have passed since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. It was in the immediate aftermath that US President George W. Bush declared his infamous “war on terror” and launched a cataclysmic campaign of occupation in both Afghanistan…
The upheaval in Afghanistan was undoubtedly one of the most shocking events of the year. It will likely have fatal consequences for the Afghan people, neighboring countries and the international community. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is so devastating that…
In my first article of this three-part series, I made the case that the victory of the Taliban would radicalize Pakistan and increase its global nuclear threat. Notably, the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is not only changing its eastern neighbor,…