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…
Asian Powers Set Their Strategic Sights on Europe
After 500 years, the tables have turned, with an incoherent Europe the object of rising Asia’s geopolitical ambitions.
When It Comes to Political Violence, America Is Not Exceptional
The attempt to kill Donald Trump should be a chilling reminder of how easy it is to trigger a lethal U.S. tradition.
How Trump Republicans really feel about NATO
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond column. Dina Smeltz is vice president for Public Opinion and Foreign Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. For the past…
Chuck Schumer lauds Senate’s ‘greatest achievement in years’ as foreign aid bill passes – video
The US Senate has voted resoundingly by 79 to 18 to approve $95bn in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as a bipartisan super-majority united to send the long-stalled package to Joe Biden’s desk for signature. The bill was approved after proceedings that were hailed by the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, as ‘one of…
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests For Donald Trump, he is “my envoy”, the man apparently anointed as the former US president’s roving ambassador while he plots a return to the White House. To critics, he is seen as “an online pest” and “a national disgrace” –…
How Haiti’s Unelected Leader Lost America’s Blessing
Neighboring Caribbean countries pushed Washington to support a leadership transition in Port-au-Prince.