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Harry Blain

Harry Blain

Harry Blain is a PhD student in political science at the Graduate Center, CUNY (City University of New York).

Why We Need a Congress that Cares About Foreign Policy

It took time, but Congress acted on Vietnam. Today, only a small minority of legislators dare to speak about our much longer involvement in Afghanistan, even though Congress receives voluminous — and often shocking — quarterly reports on the war’s progress.

June 21st, 2018

By Harry Blain

Why We Need a Congress that Cares About Foreign Policy

The U.S. Congress has power over two very important things: money and information. It can, in theory, and practice, end a war by refusing to fund it. It can — and has — compelled the leading architects of American foreign policy — CIA directors, national security advisors, secretaries of defense — to answer for their uses and abuses of executive

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Harry Blain

Harry Blain

Harry Blain is a PhD student in political science at the Graduate Center, CUNY (City University of New York).

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Once Upon a Time, Congress Actually Fought Saudi Arms Deals

Most members of Congress accept that the U.S. will sell huge quantities of weapons to the rights-abusing state. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Once Upon a Time, Congress Actually Fought Saudi Arms Deals

That should’ve happened so fast that Congress couldn’t step in. These were the words of Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen at February’s prestigious Munich Security Conference, in 

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Israel’s Newest Allies: The White Nationalist Right

A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes about the ascent of the far right in the country.

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Israel’s Newest Allies: The White Nationalist Right

Much of the “alt-right” literature in the United States is exactly what you would expect.  Images of George Soros using his “globalist” tentacles to smite

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