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With at least six former employees working in the Trump administration, it might be expected that Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, would keep quiet about the new US president’s…
What did Syria (and by extension Russia) have to do with the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty almost 50 years ago? Lots, according to Anthony R. Wells, a veteran…
In dozens of cities across the country this weekend, impromptu protests sprung up against the Trump administration’s hastily-drafted executive order banning immigration from a handful of Muslim-majority countries. In Washington,…
I’m happy to join my Obama administration friends at Shadow Government. But I wonder if this approach — Democrats from the old regime offering constructive criticism and advice to the…
“You know, in previous years a deficit of mutual respect was a main reason for the regression and degradation of our relations,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov told reporters on Monday,…
Recent executive actions by President Donald Trump — a temporary travel ban on individuals from certain countries and a memo organizing the interagency national security process — reaffirm several well-established…
If the Philippines’ war on drugs isn’t working, it’s because of the corrupt “scalawags” on the police force. Or at least that’s what President Rodrigo Duterte says. Over 7,000 people…
Don’t worry about Donald Trump — his Republican supporters have been whispering to Never Trumpers like me for months. He doesn’t really mean all of his campaign rhetoric. In fact,…
Many governments had a quick, decisive response to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens from seven countries from coming to the United States. Some of the impacted countries —…
Since Election Day, I’ve been struggling with what to say to my many friends and former colleagues in the civil and foreign service. These jobs are never easy, but it…
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