President Trump stood before the UN General Assembly this week and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea just as a new NPR poll suggested that three-quarters of the population are unaware that he has the sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. It should also come as no surprise that the public is in the dark […]
Iraq’s sectarian divide has emerged as a defining feature of identity politics and international…
In ordinary times, NATO summits are generally staid and well-prepared events that celebrate the…
This May, when President Donald Trump abruptly canceled the Singapore Summit, which ultimately took place…
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, has won a landslide victory in Mexico’s…
The war against the Islamic State (ISIS) appears to be coming to an end in Iraq. Americans are again talking about winning and starting to think about what comes next. But I can’t help but wonder if this is the same “victory” President Bush famously declared on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln with […]
Navajo officials and residents, along with others, urged a Senate committee last week to expand coverage…
The news today is full of dire pronouncements about the “crisis” at the Mexico-US border. In reality,…
It was another surreal night in Turkish politics. That the elections were suddenly brought forward by…
On Sunday, voters in Turkey will go to the polls to elect their country’s next president and…
It is often said that the history of immigration is the history of cuisine. Certainly, in the United…
The humanitarian situation has deteriorated in Yemen’s crucial port city of Hodeidah as Saudi, Emirati,…
When US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President/Premier Mikhail Gorbachev met during the famous…
Since President Trump met with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un earlier this week, the pace and volume of…