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Who’s Afraid of the China Select Committee? March 24, 2025

Recently, the House Select Committee on the Competition with the Chinese Communist Party released a video highlighting the whirlwind of bipartisan accomplishments and groundbreaking investigations they’ve undertaken. The CCP’s decades-long political ...

china

Congress

Politics

Communist Party

U.S.-South Africa Diplomatic Crisis Provides an Opportunity for a New Beginning March 22, 2025

U.S.-South Africa relations sank to a new low last week after the South African ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, accused the Trump administration of “supremacy” on four occasions during an online lecture on U.S. foreign policy to a South Afr...

South Africa

Trump administration

foreign policy

Noncitizen Voting in U.S. Elections March 19, 2025

Disputes about how America votes have raged since the 2020 pandemic-driven expansion of vote-by-mail.While mail balloting has continued to stir controversy, now noncitizen voting has taken center stage. Debate surrounding the issue will likely soon c...

voting

Elections

Congress Should Pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act March 17, 2025

Much ink has already been spilled on the antisemitism crisis plaguing the United States. As the new Trump administration seeks to crack down on antisemitism on university campuses, Congress should finally pass legislation which treats the subject wit...

Would a Peace Deal in Ukraine Last? March 13, 2025

Apeace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France, European leaders negotiated new territorial boundaries at the Congress of Vienna, in 1814–15, in an attempt to establis...

Democrats Stuck in a Hole on Foreign Policy March 08, 2025

The party's hawkish response to Trump's Congress speech this week yearned for an unpopular bygone era ...

Steps for U.S. Military Against Cartels March 07, 2025

During his address to Congress on March 4, US President Donald Trump did not mince words about the threat drug cartels pose: “The cartels are waging war on America, and it’s time for America to wage war on the cartels.” His statement marks the cleare...

Mexico

Trump Hails "Common Sense Revolution" in Address to Congress March 05, 2025

Americas

Trump Tells Congress ‘America Is Back' March 05, 2025

President Trump sauntered to the rostrum, where the House Speaker normally presides, to double down on all his administration has already done in his first six weeks and will soon do, bellowing immediately before a joint session of Congress that “Ame...

Donald Trump

‘Living in a Bubble’: How Zelensky Miscalculated Trump March 01, 2025

For three years in the United States, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was heralded as the second coming of Winston Churchill. He earned standing ovations from Congress, posed for glossy photo shoots, and received regular envoys of politicians,...

Donald Trump

Ukraine

It’s Time To Remove Hostile Chinese Outposts December 11, 2023

Last September, the Smithsonian Institute hosted a gala called “Classy, Sassy, Jazzy Hong Kong Night” at the behest of Washington, D.C.’s Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO). Patrons drank and dined amid vibrant music and celebrated the “dive...

Ukraine’s Triple Stalemate December 05, 2023

In three critical arenas — the halls of Congress, European capitals and on the battlefield — Ukraine's war effort has encountered a storm of stalemates that pose an existential crisis to the country's future. ...

Ukraine

Latin America Is No Longer U.S.'s ‘Backyard’ December 04, 2023

On Dec. 2, 1823, during his seventh annual message to Congress, later to be called the State of the Union address, President James Monroe provided the foreign policy position of the United States that would dominate the Western Hemisphere for the com...

Latin America

Bipartisan Calls for Congress Not To Reauthorize FISA December 02, 2023

Americas

Defund the Self-Appointed Global Tax Authorities at the OECD December 01, 2023

From public university programs that teach young people to hate America to massive IRS funding boosts to expand taxpayer audits, too many U.S. tax dollars work against American interests.On the international stage, it’s the same story.The Organizatio...

OECD

Politics

economics

Congress Should Not Fund IMF Mission Creep September 07, 2023

The Biden administration is seeking authority to support $21 billion in loans through a new International Monetary Fund trust to support climate change, health care, and other development activities outside of its remit. This mission creep is unwise,...

Guatemala’s Congress Refuses To Recognize President-Elect’s Party September 01, 2023

Americas

Why I'm Fighting to End the Rubber Stamp for War September 21, 2021

From start to finish, our entire experience in Afghanistan underscores how deficient Congress has been in this arena. ...

war powers

United States

Congress

Seeds of Another Trade War Over Clean Energy September 20, 2021

The legislative text for the president’s Build Back Better Act has several provisions to incentivize domestic job creation and reshoring. This is no surprise given that President Biden has, from the start, framed climate action in terms of delivering...

clean energy

economics

trade wars

We Need to Save Lebanon September 20, 2021

Once the Paris of the Middle East, the city of Beirut today is a hollow shell of its former self. Political deadlock, endemic corruption, malign Iranian influence through Hezbollah, and imminent economic collapse have Lebanon on the road to becoming ...

Avoiding a Historical Failure After Afghanistan September 10, 2021

President Joe Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan, against the advice of the military establishment and contrary to the actions of three previous presidents, has had the unintended consequence of surrendering the future of his presidency to others....

Afghanistan

foreign policy

Terrorism