Category: Foreign Policy
In this Month’s Issue: August 2018
by | Aug 1, 2018 | Economy, Foreign Policy, PoliticsFrench Lessons on How to Grow the Middle Class By Steven Pressman As the campaign season enters its final stages, torrents of empty rhetoric and wasted column inches are being devoted to the fate of American middle-class families. Proposals ranging from health saving accounts, student debt forgiveness, even guaranteed minimum income plans have been advanced as […]
Marlboro Man Diagnosed With Chronic Insecurity
by Simon Reich | Jul 2, 2018 | Foreign Policy, Immigration, PoliticsAmerica has become obsessed with feeling insecure. It has become an endemic part of the culture, though it wasn’t always this way. I am old enough to remember as a child, at the movies, we would watch the ads before the film started. One of them would always be for Marlboro cigarettes. It was always […]
Iran Will Get a Better Deal from Europeans after US Withdrawal
by The Editors | Jun 1, 2018 | Foreign PolicyIn these excerpts from his exclusive interview with the Washington Spectator, Peter Galbraith, a former ambassador to Croatia, adviser to Kurdish political parties, and deputy U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, offered his evaluation of the impact of the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, shortly after it was announced by President Trump on May 8, […]
Talks with North Korea At Risk from US Policy Hawks
by Robert Alvarez | May 1, 2018 | Foreign PolicyIf you are hopeful that the pending talks between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, (should they indeed take place) will bring a timely end to the nearly 68-year-long Korean War, don’t bet on it. The 1953 armistice, which was struck by military leaders of North Korea, the United States, South […]
Trump Faces Obstacles to a Korean Deal, Some Self-Inflicted
by Robert Alvarez | Apr 23, 2018 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsThe following article, which appears in print in the May issue of the Washington Spectator, has been updated for online publication to reflect recent developments in the negotiations underway with North Korea. If you are hopeful that the pending talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will bring an imminent end to the nearly […]