https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/trump-shooting-GettyImages-2161923146.jpgThe attempt to kill Donald Trump should be a chilling reminder of how easy it is to trigger a lethal U.S. tradition.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/10/multimedia/10rwanda-uk-01-gtpz/10rwanda-uk-01-gtpz-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgBritain gave Rwanda hundreds of millions of pounds, even though no asylum seekers were deported to the Central African nation under the agreement.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/09/multimedia/09haiti-kenya-explainer-01-gpfh/09haiti-kenya-explainer-01-gpfh-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgAbout 400 Kenyan officers have deployed to Haiti as part of the first wave of a multinational contingent tasked with trying to restore order in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation.
Move is latest sign the countries are moving away from traditional regional and Western allies following spate of coups.
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1536748728.jpgAn alliance that includes Ukraine will require a vastly larger military and economic commitment.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/06/17/science/00SCI-Malaria/00SCI-Malaria-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgAfter years of delay, millions of malaria vaccines are being supplied to children in Africa. Tens of thousands died waiting.
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…
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/03/multimedia/03sierraleone-1-lfth/03sierraleone-1-lfth-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgA new law in the West African country of Sierra Leone allows child brides to annul their marriages and be financially compensated.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/02/multimedia/02nigeria-kingdom-1-jgtw/02nigeria-kingdom-1-jgtw-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgTwo men claim to be the emir of Kano, an ancient kingdom in northern Nigeria. Their struggle for power and influence is feeding into a wider competition ahead of the country’s next election.
One of the enduring themes of President Joseph Biden’s public life has been intense ambivalence about the elite institutions of American life and the well-credentialed, well-spoken, well-paid careerists who occupy them. There is resentment, from the so-so student with a stutter who grew up in Scranton and small-town Delaware and didn’t have the economic and educational…
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