by Hussein Ibish It’s been one year since the devastating Beirut port explosion, perhaps the worst non-nuclear blast in a heavily populated area in human history. A […]
Tag: foreign policy
Penalty for early withdrawal?
Retirement plans warn of a “penalty for early withdrawal.” Might that also apply to the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan? If you set aside […]
Biden-Putin summit puts Russia to the test
by Trudy Rubin Rate the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva as a success for President Joe Biden. If you want to understand why, just look at what Vladimir […]
Maybe Putin learned something
Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is […]
Rewrite history before it happens
by Martin Schram For what seems like forever, America’s presidents have been ordering up new U.S. policies designed to finally fix, or at least make the best […]
Why Hamas starts wars it always loses
by Eli Lake According to its exiled political leader, Hamas’ war strategy — if that’s the proper term for raining hundreds of randomly fired rockets on Israel […]
Biden should kick Russia out of the Iran nuclear talks
by Eli Lake Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program just got more interesting. And if President Joe Biden wants them to succeed, he should insist they proceed with […]
Why Iran negotiations will go nowhere
Sen. Marsha Blackburn has not devoted much of her time in office to Iran policy. But last week the Tennessee Republican offered some clarity on the issue […]
A royal game of thrones in Jordan
by Trudy Rubin The Shakespearean drama that just erupted in the Mideast kingdom of Jordan — involving an angry monarch, a spurned prince and an alleged coup […]
Keep Putin from murdering opposition
by Trudy Rubin When President Joe Biden agreed with a newscaster that Vladimir Putin was “a killer,” I initially thought it a tactical error. Not that the […]