InternationalNews
Since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, a steady stream of Cuban refugees has taken to the waves in a desperate attempt to escape the… Read More
InternationalNews
Secretary of State John Kerry sought to show the United States’ support of France after the recent terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo… Read More
InternationalSocietyCommentary
A group of South Asia experts recently submitted a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging him to address rising religious persecution in Pakistan… Read More
InternationalCommentary
This year will be important for Japan’s economic growth as the country continues to struggle to control its debt problem. In the coming months, observers… Read More
InternationalNews
The Obama administration Friday will begin carrying out the first major initiative in its policy to normalize relations with Cuba, most significantly, making it easier… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The foreign policy community has this week lost one its finest members, William C. Martel, associate professor of International Security Studies at Tufts University. Martel… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The degeneration of Hong Kong’s political environment continues apace with the firebombing of the home and offices of the pro-democracy newspaper owner Jimmy Lai, well-known… Read More
InternationalNews
The White House said today that Cuba has released all 53 prisoners it promised to free as part of a deal to normalize relations with… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In a stunning political upset, two-term Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse lost Thursday’s election to a defector from his own party, Maithripala Sirisena. With Sirisena’s… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Obama’s change of policy on Cuba looks worse with every passing day. Remember the 53 political prisoners that Obama promised would be released? Three… Read More
InternationalCommentary
There was a time when the “China-lobby” meant supporters of The Republic of China (Taiwan). In the last couple decades, it has come to mean… Read More
InternationalCommentary
If we really knew what is going on in the Kremlin backrooms, where Russia’s information war is being planned, we in the West would be… Read More
InternationalNews
Even as Washington renews diplomatic ties with Havana, hundreds of Cuban refugees continue to flee the Castro regime for America, braving the 90 miles of… Read More
InternationalNews
Cuba has freed “some” of 53 political prisoners that it agreed to release in its deal to normalize relations with the United States, the State Department acknowledged… Read More
InternationalNews
President Obama will have trouble appointing an ambassador to Cuba following his decision to normalize relations with the Communist government, predicts the outgoing Democratic chairman… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Obama issued a new executive order to impose addition punitive measures on North Korea. Although the cyberattack on Sony Pictures and subsequent threats of… Read More
InternationalNews
How should the United States respond to the cyberattack on Sony Pictures? One group says we should hack them back. After the FBI said North… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr is supposed to have said something along the lines of: Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future…. Read More
InternationalNews
Last month, Israel signed the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty, which supposedly prevents nations from arming terrorists and mass murderers. But in reality, the treaty’s advocates… Read More
InternationalNews
An activist has decided to bring “The Interview” to the people of North Korea. Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector and an activist against its… Read More
InternationalNews
Who were 2014’s winners and losers? Charles Krauthammer counts “the Castro brothers” among the year’s biggest winners. “They had to wait through 10 presidencies to… Read More
InternationalNews
HarperCollins wanted to sell atlases created specifically for schools in the Middle East. Certainly a worthy mission, minus one major omission: the publishing giant left… Read More
InternationalCommentary
After a dramatic session that stretched into early Monday, Ukrainian lawmakers finally passed a budget bill amid concerns over its International Monetary Fund lending line… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Read any women’s magazine in the United States and you’ll see bitter complaints over women’s inequality in this country. Men and women have different jobs,… Read More
InternationalNews
Hamas barred a group of children from entering Israel on a goodwill trip earlier this week. Intended as a “postwar conciliatory trip meant to foster… Read More
InternationalNews
Cuban authorities arrested several dissidents and activists in an apparent attempt to prevent them from attending a planned rally in Havana’s Revolution Square organized by… Read More
InternationalNews
Authorities in Azerbaijan raided and closed the offices of a U.S.-funded radio station this weekend as government prosecutors in this Caucasus nation strengthened their crackdown… Read More
InternationalCommentary
It’s “historic.” A “landmark” breakthrough. By one stroke of the presidential pen, the tide of history has risen, never to recede again. How many times… Read More
InternationalNews
The pro-democracy protests that captured the energy of youth in Hong Kong — and earned sympathy around the world — ended flatly earlier this month,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Today, on Christmas Eve, the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty takes effect, giving Americans a lump of coal in their stockings this holiday season. The ATT… Read More
