The heads of state have gone home. For one week every September, New York fills with delegations from governments that spend the other 51 weeks collecting in the city. Then the motorcades leave, and the city goes back to running its own foreign policy. New York has an Office for International Affairs. Los Angeles, Chicago, […]
President Donald Trump put on a promiscuous display of fawning extravagance in welcoming the president of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, to the White House. The idea, one presumes, was to lavish the Chinese communist dictator with such a sheer volume of official state honor that he would be beguiled into returning the […]
Last Tuesday at the United Nations, two men stood at the same podium, hours apart, and told two very different stories about the same war. President Donald Trump said his administration had ended the fighting in Gaza and brought the hostages home. French President Emmanuel Macron, delivering his farewell address before stepping down next spring, […]
The economy of Iran is severely strained. At least in the near term, however, it is unlikely to experience a total collapse that would force the ruling regime into good faith negotiations with the United States. Iran’s economy is certainly in dire shape. Inflation is rampant, the currency’s value is plummeting, oil exports have been […]
Kirill Dmitriev came to Washington on Monday to discuss peace in Ukraine and what American and Russian companies might do together after the war. President Vladimir Putin’s envoy, who heads Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, met officials from the U.S. Treasury and Energy departments to discuss a settlement and possible energy projects after the fighting. The […]
Iran has a deal for President Donald Trump, and a deadline to go with it. Tehran’s latest proposal, pressed through mediators this week, asks Washington to release frozen Iranian funds, lift sanctions on Iranian oil, and end the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, all within four to five days. Nuclear talks would begin within […]
Should the Civil Rights Act protect all Americans equally, or must some meet a higher standard to prove racial discrimination? A federal judge appointed by President Joe Biden imposed a heavier burden on white plaintiffs, a distinction the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rightfully rejected this week. From 2013 until 2021, Joshua […]