7+ hour, 21+ min ago  (258+ words) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo'an is poised to use the Ankara summit to burnish his own credentials as a global power broker, and to signal his increasingly absolute power domestically. Henri J. Barkey is professor emeritus at Lehigh University and has…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (456+ words) Center for Preventive Action More than thirty people died in a suicide bombing on a train in southwestern Pakistan, officials said, in the latest attack claimed by separatist Balochistan militants (Reuters). An Afghan Taliban delegation met European Union officials in…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (225+ words) In a recent decision, the Supreme Court has made it more difficult to hold U. S. corporations liable for complicity in human rights violations overseas. In their brief [PDF] before the U. S. Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit in 2023, thirteen Chinese nationals…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (398+ words) The United States appears to be pulling back from European security, with U. S. plans for withdrawal accelerating after a rift over support for the U. S. -Israeli war against Iran. NATO's Turkey summit could be the start of a transition toward a new…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (955+ words) Two men who were instrumental in the writing and ratification of the U. S. Constitution differed on how the document allocated power in foreign policy between the president and Congress. Original intent. The term pops up frequently in debates over how to…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (428+ words) The Trump administration wants to release frozen Iranian funds'but only to buy U. S. farm goods. The proposal is less humanitarian gesture than market engineering, and without independent oversight, it risks repeating the catastrophic failures of the Iraq Oil-for-Food program. Sam Vigersky…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (339+ words) Truman's decision not to seek congressional authorization for his decision to commit U. S. troops to defend South Korea set a precedent that continues to shape the war powers today. Seventy-six years ago today, President Harry Truman ordered the U. S. military to intervene…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (369+ words) In just four words, JFK bonded with the people of West Berlin and gave rise to an urban legend. Being president is a tough job. Your every mistake is relentlessly dissected and replayed. Even when you get it right, people…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (160+ words) The U. S. -Iran deal sidelines Israel, a critical ally, on issues affecting its core security interests. That may be tactically defensible, but the way Washington has handled it is not. Elliott Abrams served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (247+ words) Asia got a glimpse of its energy future during the Iran war. What governments do next will determine whether the crisis becomes a turning point or a missed opportunity. The emergency measures governments rolled out in March and April were,…...