As NATO leaders gather in Ankara on July 7-8, the alliance will again speak the language it has used for decades: unity, solidarity, deterrence, and collective commitment. Yet the central political question hanging over the meeting is harder to conceal than any summit communiqué. The Iran war has exposed a growing weakness in American leadership: [...]
Absorbing the revelations in the book Regime Change by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, I posed a question to my American colleague: why do figures like Donald Trump continue to get elected? With his signature measured calm, he offered a chilling truth. He suggested that Americans have not felt history’s harsh winds blow with [...]
Lina Farajallah follows the dumping trucks every morning from the window of her quaint home in Idhna, a Palestinian town in Hebron in the southern West Bank. They carry waste from Israel and the nearby Jewish settlements into her neighborhood and dump it a few hundred meters from where she lives with her daughter. The [...]
Sacrificing the entire MOU over the question of who nominally manages the Strait for the next few weeks would be a costly and unnecessary mistake, writes Iranian-American relations expert Trita Parsi.
Moments after scoring Belgium’s fourth goal against the hapless US men’s national soccer team, Romelu Lukaku ran to the corner flag and joined his teammates in a mocking “Trump dance.” The scene was repeated soon after in the Belgium locker room, this time as they sang the Village People’s “YMCA”—a staple of President Donald Trump’s […]