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With Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency, the United States and the West face renewed opportunities and challenges in their approach to Afghanistan. His former envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, saw the election as an opening to fully implement the Doha Agreement, moving toward normalized relations, while the Taliban themselves have urged Trump for […]
Democrats are in a state of shock. Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s decisive defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris in the Electoral College and the popular vote has been disillusioning. The fact that Trump has grown his coalition feels like a rebuke of what Democrats have stood for since the 1960s. In the months ahead, […]
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s congratulations for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump this week signals his pragmatic willingness to forge a working relationship with the incoming president. Starmer, striving to bridge differences, finds himself in the unenviable position of balancing his party’s distaste for Trump with the U.K.’s long-standing strategic reliance on the United States. Starmer’s […]
From China’s mass internment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, to Syria’s torture and extermination of thousands of detainees, to Russia’s forcible transfer of civilians from occupied areas of Ukraine, no region of our planet is free from crimes against humanity. Nor are the perpetrators limited to state actors. Between 2014 and 2017, the militant group calling […]
Sitting on the floor of a rented room in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Karim recalls the pain and grief he sustained during a bombing in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in August, severely injuring him and killing his 7-year-old daughter. “She died on the spot,” he said in an interview in September. (Karim is identified only by his […]
Jeff Bezos’s decision to block the paper’s presidential endorsement has sparked mass cancellations—and for good reason. Source link
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to deliver what advisors are calling a closing message Tuesday night, a week before election day, speaking from the same spot on the National Mall where former President Trump spoke before his allies cited his false election claims as they stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The speech’s […]
In November 2004, Ukraine’s pro-Russian prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, tried to steal the country’s presidential election, triggering the Orange Revolution protests and reactions from the West. Then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell memorably went to the press briefing room and declared that the United States could not accept the results as legitimate. Current U.S. Secretary […]
Where industrial revolutions happen can reshape global affairs. Britain’s Industrial Revolution made London the center of an empire upon which the sun never set. The digital age took off in Silicon Valley, making the United States home to world-leading technology companies. But if AI leads to the next industrial revolution, that revolution will have been […]
The United States and its allies need each other more than ever. That’s the overarching message U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sought to convey to an audience in Washington—and beyond—in one of his final public addresses in his current role just two weeks before the U.S. presidential election. Speaking at the Brookings Institution on […]