Meta, Amazon nix diversity, inclusion programmes ahead of Trump term
Conservative groups have denounced the programmes and threatened to sue companies over them.
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Jimmy Carter Was a Foreign-Policy Visionary
The 39th U.S. president is often remembered for a failed rescue mission in the Iranian desert, but his legacy is much larger than that.
Major international crisis ‘much more likely’ in Trump’s second term, says his ex-national security adviser
John Bolton delivers scathing critique of Trump’s lack of knowledge or coherent strategy: ‘I’m very worried’ A major international crisis is “much more likely” in Donald Trump’s second term given the president-elect’s “inability to focus” on foreign policy, a former US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has warned. John Bolton, who at 17 months…
Mitch McConnell warns Trump to avoid ‘isolationist’ foreign policy in second term
Republicans’ outgoing US Senate leader takes issue with foreign policy thinking in party’s Maga movement Mitch McConnell, the Republicans’ outgoing leader in the US Senate, has called on Donald Trump to avoid an “isolationist” foreign policy during his looming second presidency – and urged him to back up a surge in American “hard power” by…
Poll: Most Americans want US leadership on global affairs, increased defense spending
PENTAGON — A majority of Americans want the United States to lead on the global stage with a strong military, and a supermajority want to increase national defense spending, according to the latest Reagan National Defense Survey. Despite Americans electing a president who ran on an “America First” agenda that focused on domestic issues ranging from…
Even Donald Trump Can’t Afford to Lose the Ukraine War
Victory for Putin would be a grave blow to U.S. power.
Though voter fraud rare, US election offices feature safeguards to catch it
NEW YORK — You’ve heard the horror stories: Someone casting multiple ballots, people voting in the name of dead relatives, mail-in ballots being intercepted. Voter fraud does happen occasionally. When it does, we tend to hear a lot about it. It also gets caught and prosecuted. The nation’s multilayered election processes provide many safeguards that keep…
The Civil Rights Movement and Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy
Black Americans have always sought international connection in service of promoting freedom.
Key Black Muslim group backs Kamala Harris for president over Gaza stance
Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund says Harris has ‘shown more sympathy towards the people of Gaza’ than Biden or Trump Kamala Harris has won the backing for her presidential bid of a key US Muslim organization that had declined to endorse Joe Biden before he withdrew from his re-election campaign. The switch to Harris was a…