Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Trump Has Just Raised the Stakes With Moscow and Tehran in Three Risky Moves
President Trump made three big moves on Syria and Iran this week. They crisscross and contradict one another, but the administration’s game plan in the Middle East just got a lot clearer.
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Here’s the Enormous Economic Leverage China Has Over North Korea
By Greg Wright, The ConversationNorth Korea got the world’s attention – and President Donald Trump’s – when it said on July 4 that it had successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time. The weapon,...
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Trump’s Fly-by-Night Mideast ‘Policy’ Embraces the Saudi’s New Crown Prince
It’s not likely that President Trump knew what he was getting into when he embraced the Saudis as the rightful leaders of the Islamic world and the war on terror during his visit to Riyadh last month...
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Russia’s Top Troll Strikes Again: Putin Offers Comey Political Asylum
By Rob GarverWhile much of the world looks at the turmoil in Washington, DC with apprehension and dread, at least somebody watching the expanding investigation of President Trump and his associates is enjoying...
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Here’s How the US Could Cripple North Korea’s Economy
By Rob GarverPunishing North Korea economically for its misdeeds may be simpler than many believe, according to a new report from a Washington non-profit.
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Time for Trump to Face It: From Now on, Every Week Is ‘Russia Week’
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration’s efforts to keep Russian interference in last year’s election out of the headlines are being overwhelmed by events, as another week ostensibly dedicated to a different issue...
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Putin’s Just Trolling the World Now on Trump and the US Election
By Rob GarverRussian President Vladimir Putin conceded for the first time that perhaps computer hackers from his country actually had worked to undermine Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
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Here’s One Credible Reason to Doubt the Russia-Kushner Story
By Rob GarverFollowing the Washington Post report on Friday that top White House adviser Jared Kushner had approached the Russian ambassador to the US about opening a secret line of communications between Moscow...
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How Trump Really Could Make a Difference in the Middle East
By Liz PeekTwo presidents, two trips to the Middle East in their first year in office. That is where the similarities end. I was in Cairo for President Obama’s much-celebrated speech in 2009 as a guest of...
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Trump the Diplomat? Will He Charm or Harm US Relations?
Whoever put together President Trump’s first foreign tour has a good grasp of the grand gesture. When he departs Friday, his main stops are Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, making Trump the...
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Congress Can’t Duck Voting on ISIS Forever
By Rob Garver and Eric PianinCongressional leaders are broadcasting an array mixed signals when it comes to the administration’s effort to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria, but eventually they will have to straighten out the...
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Ebola Case in U.S. Is Confirmed by CDC
By Michele Gershberg, ReutersHealth officials in the U.S. said on Tuesday the first patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus had been diagnosed in the country. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed...
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The Islamic Silent Majority You Never Heard About
By Milad Milani, The ConversationThe “cultural Muslim” refers to members of the Muslim community who are non-practicing but retain an attachment to elements of Islamic culture. The history of the Muslim world entails the story of...
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ISIS Now Controls 40 Percent of Iraq’s Wheat Crop
By Maggie Fick, ReutersFor Salah Paulis, it came down to a choice between his faith and his crop. A wheat farmer from outside Mosul, Paulis and his family fled the militant group Islamic State early last month. The group...
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Obama Must Support Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Protestors
By Andrew L. Peek, The Fiscal TimesFor a president with a notoriously ambivalent attitude towards spreading democracy abroad, the protests in Hong Kong give Obama a rare chance to be bold. On Tuesday, an estimated 80,000 demonstrators...