InternationalCommentary
How Trump Can Advance the Special Relationship With Britain
Just seven days after taking office, President Donald Trump will meet with British Prime Minister Theresa May in Washington on Jan. 27. It will be… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Congress Should Learn From Obama’s Last-Minute UN Spending Binge
During President Barack Obama’s final days in office, administration officials ran through over $700 million in a spending binge designed to fund U.N.-related priorities that… Read More
InternationalNews
Are NATO Members Carrying Their Weight? Only 5 of 28 Countries Pay ‘Fair Share’
President Donald Trump alarmed European allies during the campaign when he suggested he might not defend NATO nations if they don’t fulfill their financial obligations,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
UK Supreme Court Decision Will Not Derail Brexit
Today, Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that Parliament must be allowed a vote before the British government initiates Brexit. This ruling will not derail the Brexit… Read More
InternationalNews
What Trump’s Decision to Move Embassy to Jerusalem Would Mean
The Trump administration is undecided about relocating the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a campaign promise that carries historical and symbolic… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Trump Reinstates Policy Protecting Taxpayer Dollars From International Abortion Activity
In one of his first official actions, President Donald Trump reinstated the life-affirming Mexico City policy, ensuring that American taxpayers do not fund international organizations… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Defeated Gambian President Must Honor His People’s Wishes, Relinquish Power
The tiny West African country of The Gambia rarely makes international news, but a brewing conflict over presidential election results has thrust it into the… Read More
InternationalNews
Victim’s Son Decries Obama’s Commutation of Puerto Rico Terrorist Group Leader
Joe Connor celebrated his ninth birthday four days before his father was killed in a bombing at New York’s landmark Fraunces Tavern in 1975. The… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Obama’s Strange Pattern of Concessions to Cuba’s Communists
There seems to be something about Cuba’s military dictators that really fascinates our 44th president. Cuba was the first item President Barack Obama mentioned when he… Read More
InternationalNews
9 Issues Discussed at Rex Tillerson’s Confirmation Hearing to Be Trump’s Secretary of State
At his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state pick Rex Tillerson took harsh questioning from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Ghana Is Leading the Way for Democracy in Africa
Ghana, a West African country, has experienced peaceful transitions of power each time there has been a change in government since the country ended military… Read More
InternationalNews
Trump Presses UN to Reform. Here’s What Can Be Done to Curtail Its Power.
President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone Wednesday with new United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres—as Trump and some members of Congress are raising longstanding concerns about… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Religious Freedom in Pakistan Takes 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back
The Pakistani government took a positive step forward earlier this month in renaming the National Center for Physics after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Abdus Salam—a… Read More
InternationalCommentary
John Kerry Takes a Parting Shot at Israel in Middle East Speech
Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a detailed speech Wednesday defending the Obama administration’s recent abstention on a U.N. Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements…. Read More
InternationalNews
US Has Participated in Other UN Resolutions Chiding Israel
The Israeli government, and Republicans in Congress, have expressed outrage over the Obama administration’s decision to allow adoption of a United Nations Security Council resolution that… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Impeachment Controversy Stokes Uncertainty Ahead of South Korean Election
The next South Korean presidential election is scheduled to be held on or before Dec. 20, 2017. However, there is a possibility that South Korea… Read More
InternationalNews
Israel Green-Lights Settlements After UN Snub
Israeli authorities gave the go-ahead for the construction of hundreds of new settlement sites in East Jerusalem Monday after a United Nations resolution condemned Israel over the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Germany to Commit More Troops to NATO in Lithuania
Germany is upping its contribution to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the Baltic state of Lithuania. This is a welcome development. The initial news… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Russia-Turkey Relations Unlikely to Be Derailed by Shooting of Ambassador
The shocking assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey at an Ankara art exhibition on Monday by a Turk seemingly motivated by the situation in… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Foiled Coup Plot in US-Allied Montenegro Has Russia’s Fingerprints All Over It
A recently foiled coup plot in the small but geographically important Balkan nation of Montenegro underscores the lengths to which Russia will go to undermine… Read More
InternationalCommentary
China’s Seizure of US Navy Drone Tests Trump
In the past 48 hours, the temperature in the South China Sea has risen significantly. The first development came with reports that China had placed… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Is There a Genocide Happening in Burma?
In spite of the new, relatively democratic government in Burma, discrimination against the Burmese Muslim minority Rohingya continues. New reports indicate a resurgence in violence,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Trump’s Welcome Interest in Kazakhstan, and Why It Matters
Among the long list of foreign leaders phoning President-elect Donald Trump in recent days was Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev. According to some press reports, Trump… Read More
InternationalCommentary
As South Korea Impeaches President, US Must Remain Steady Ally
The South Korean National Assembly impeached President Park Geun-hye Friday by a resounding vote of 234-56. Under the country’s constitution, Park will immediately cede all… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Japanese Prime Minister’s Pearl Harbor Visit Will Further Reconciliation
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced he would travel to Pearl Harbor later this month, the first Japanese leader to do so. Abe commented he… Read More
InternationalCommentary
US Central America Policy Should Address Corrupt Nicaragua Regime
Two days before U.S. voters flocked to the polls, Nicaragua held its own elections. But the results there surprised no one. For the fourth time,… Read More
InternationalNews
The Next Brexit? Italy ‘No’ Vote Empowers Populist Revolt Against Establishment
Daniel Hannan, a British politician and a leading campaigner of Brexit, recognizes the forces that he says inspired Sunday’s referendum result in Italy, where the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Trump-Tsai Phone Call a Good Start to Reforming US-Taiwan Relations
The transition team has announced that President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen Friday. Not only is there nothing wrong with… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Is the Chinese Economy Hitting Stagnation?
For roughly three decades, the Chinese economy registered a staggering annual growth rate in the vicinity of 10 percent. Over the past four years, however,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
No, Trump Likely Will Not Mediate India-Pakistan Conflict
The Indian media is raising concern about President-elect Donald Trump’s phone conversation with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and what it might mean for his… Read More
