Rather than reflexively opposing Trump, the Democrats would be wise, from a political perspective, to recalibrate their failed foreign-policy positions, and reestablish their bona fides with the American electorate as the party for peace.
Donald Trump has backed himself into a corner with his tariff-imposed trade war with China, undercutting the most important lynchpin of peace with North Korea.
BEIJING – Tremendous; great, incredible and tremendous; very historic, and very, very comprehensive. Such were the terms U.S. President Donald Trump used to praise last Tuesday’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and he was
It appears the U.S. – with Israeli help – is again ‘locked and loaded’ to challenge the Syrian government’s hold on its territory in order to manifest Washington’s long-standing efforts to partition the country and gain control over the majority of its resources.
DEIR EZ-ZOR, SYRIA – In a troubling sign that the Syrian conflict is set to deepen, local Syrian media reported on Sunday that the U.S.-led coalition
Citing the war, lack of medicines, frequent electrical outages, and crumbling transportation infrastructure, Yemen’s Ministry of Human Rights in March attributed more than 1,200 deaths over the last three years to a lack of treatment for patients in the advanced stages of renal failure.
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- For two years now, 28-year-old Hafedh Hassan has made the wearying trip -- 80 miles each way, on bad roads -- from his village in the coffee-growing Haraz region to this city on Yemen’s west coast, where a brilliant red sun meets the dazzling Red Sea. Hafedh’s kidneys are failing him, and medical staff at the Hemodialysis
The nation’s rising rate of suicide, the highest since 1986, corresponds to a shape-shifting economy that is in the final stage of its mutation from an industrial economy to a post-industrial economy, in which living standards are declining and employees work harder for less pay.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- As the Maryland lawyer remembers it, the call came from his mother a few years back. After a few financial setbacks, the lawyer’s younger, adult brother had moved back in with his mother but he hadn’t been himself of late. He slept away much of the day, and when he was awake, he was unusually lethargic and sullen, refusing to
Under siege and with little to celebrate, Yemenis have found a new way to mark the end of Ramadan holiday.
SANA’A, YEMEN -- "My mom said we don’t have enough money to buy new clothes this Eid because of the war," proclaims Nassem, a young Yemeni girl. Instead, her hands are adorned with hena’a -- a black liquid applied to form intricate designs to the skin. "I want dad to see my hands, he’ll like it, Nassem says. But Nassem’s father likely won’t be
Latin America has undeniably moved to the forefront of BDS activism, a trend that is unlikely to change anytime soon.
VALDIVIA, CHILE – Last Tuesday, in the wake of recent victories for the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement elsewhere in Latin America, Valdivia, a relatively small city in southern Chile, became the first city in all of Latin America to officially join
