Congress May Finally Repeal the Iraq War Authorization
This week, the Senate voted to do something that it hasn’t done in more than 50 years: repeal a war authorization. By an overwhelming bipartisan majority of 66-30, senators passed a bill…
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Sahar Khan
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Sahar Khan (@khansahar1) is the Managing Editor at Inkstick. She is also a research fellow at the Cato Institute's Defense and Foreign Policy Studies department. Sahar holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Irvine; a MPP from the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago; and, a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University. Sahar's work has appeared in various well-known sources, such as The Diplomat, Axios, The Hill, South Asian Voices, and Newsweek.
The Real TikTok Problem Isn’t China
This past Thursday, Mar. 23, 2023, Congress conducted a long-awaited hearing on TikTok, called “How Congress Can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children From Online Harms.”…
The US Needs to Get on Track with Global Goals
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” is a column in collaboration with Foreign Policy for America’s NextGen network, a premier group of next generation foreign policy leaders committed to…
Waiting for the US to Invade My Iraq
“The banana smells so good, can you please buy me one, I want to taste it,” I asked my father at the market when I was in the third grade in the 1990s, and when Iraq was under economic…
Experts Reflect on the First Year of the Ukraine War
“Adults in a Room” is a series in collaboration with The Stimson Center’s Reimagining US Grand Strategy program. The series stems from the group’s monthly networking events that call…
Biden is Competing with Republicans on China
When the Biden administration presented the annual Pentagon budget to Congress this month, one of the items it highlighted is a dramatic increase in spending to cope with China. The Pentagon…
Military Spouses on Why the Iraq War Legacy Still Lives on
Today marks 20 years since the United States invaded Iraq. Last week, the Senate got ready to vote on a bipartisan bill that would finally repeal the dangerous and outdated 2002 Iraq War…
Feminist Foreign Policy Lessons on the Iraq War Anniversary
Twenty years ago, the United States invaded Iraq. The intervention was based on lies, opposed by millions of people worldwide, and violated international law. The consequences of that…
Brazilian Engineers Hold Back the Rain
Communities across the globe are facing more frequent and more extreme weather events, and Brazil is no different. Whether the issue is flooding or drought, disruptions to infrastructure can…
The Slow and Steady Regulation of Cryptocurrency
Several months ago, the collapse of FTX, a major cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in the Bahamas, highlighted an important fact: The cryptocurrency sector has been subject to relatively…