Last week over two-hundred Republicans, including every GOP senator except Rand Paul (R-KY), signed a letter urging President Donald Trump to insist that Iran give up all enrichment capabilities in any nuclear deal with that country. In other words, they don’t want a...
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Can India and Pakistan’s Fragile Truce Hold?
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 10, 2025, a U.S.-brokered ceasefire halted the most intense India-Pakistan military confrontation in decades, sparked by the April 22 militant attack in Pahalgam that killed 26, mostly Indian tourists. The truce, announced with fanfare by U.S. President Donald...
The Gulf States ‘Harsh Enlightenment’
by Matt Wolfson | May 21, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 20 of this year, Maria Kovalchuk, a twenty-year old Ukrainian model, influencer, OnlyFans content creator, and antiwar activist was found lying on the side of a road in Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, after going missing from a party...
Corporate Interests and Think Tanks Dictate U.S. Foreign Policy
by José Niño | May 21, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While partisan battles dominate headlines, U.S. foreign policy remains strikingly consistent across administrations. Many realists and non-interventionists were cautiously optimistic about Donald Trump’s second term bringing some modicum of restraint to foreign...
Syria and the Dark Side of the Force
by John Weeks | May 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There is a charming scene in the film Clerks (1994) in which the sidekick character Randall discusses his misgivings about the film Return of the Jedi (1983) with the protagonist Dante. Randall is upset that the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Empire’s new military space...
Iran Nuclear Negotiations Bring New, Surprising Developments
by Ted Snider | May 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the past several days, there have been surprising developments in the negotiations between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s civilian nuclear program. U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently, but not always, defined the goal of the negotiations as being limited...
Opposition to Israel Does Not Need to be ‘Intersectional’
by James Rushmore | May 19, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Variety recently reported on an open letter signed by nearly four-hundred members of the film industry in response to the Israeli Defense Forces’ killing of Palestinian photojournalist and war documentarian Fatima Hassouna. Hassouna, her pregnant sister, and nine...
TGIF: Individuals, Not America, First
by Sheldon Richman | May 16, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Let's hear no more about America First! It's a fraud, a cover for collectivist nationalism, and a distraction from what matters. (It also looks like camouflage for Trump Family First, but let's take it at face value for now.) On foreign policy, America First does not...