Shadow Government 2017-2021
List of Shadow Government 2017-2021 articles
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un address the 5th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea on Dec. 23. (KCNA/AFP/Getty Images) The United States Should Resolve to Avoid War With North Korea in 2018
The greatest danger to world peace in the coming year is the prospect of war on the Korean Peninsula — and Trump is making matters worse.
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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on May 23 (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Why Israel Should Be Worried About Getting Into Bed with Trump
There’s long been a bipartisan consensus on support for Israel. That may soon be history.
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Graffiti depicting U.S. President Donald Trump on the Israeli separation barrier between the West Bank town of Bethlehem and Jerusalem on Aug. 25. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images) Jerusalem: After 30 Years of Hope and Failure, What’s Next for Israel/Palestine?
The United States has forfeited its authority as a neutral broker. It may be time for the Palestinian street to have its say.
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama talks with then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan while attending the U.S.-ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Nov. 20, 2012. (Wikimedia Commons) I Was Hillary Clinton’s Chief Foreign-Policy Advisor. And I Have a #MeToo Mea Culpa.
Men in positions of power need to do better. That includes me.
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A Hezbollah supporter displays a picture of Iran's late Ayatollah Khomeini, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 1. (Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images) Here’s How Both Obama and Trump Stoked the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry
The United States should find a more effective way to deter Tehran and restrain Riyadh.
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President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden at the White House on July 25.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Evidence Is Damning: What Team Trump Knew and When
We already know that the Trump campaign was aware of — and intended to profit from — Moscow’s interference in the election.
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A U.S. soldier in Baghdad, Iraq on Oct. 25, 2009. (Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images) Israel Is Growing Increasingly Worried About the Trump Administration
As Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Russia rush to fill the vacuum of leadership in the Middle East, the United States is AWOL.
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Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang talks to U.S. President Donald Trump at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in the Vietnamese city of Danang on Nov. 11. (Photo credit Jorge Silva/AFP/Getty Images) Why Cozying Up to Trump Works
The rest of the world may not particularly like the U.S. president’s bluster, but playing to his ego is a pretty good strategy.
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The band Spinal Tap in 1984. (Pete Cronin/Redferns) Our Missile Defenses Go to 11
But that’s not nearly enough to safeguard us from North Korea’s nukes.
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(Left to right) Subcommittee ranking member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaks as Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) looks on during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing titled 'Extremist Content and Russian Disinformation Online' on Capitol Hill, Oct. 31, in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Where’s the 9/11 Commission for Russia’s Election Attack?
It’s about far more than tech companies and targeted ads. A whole of government response is needed to make sure this never happens again.
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Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) talks with reporters in Washington D.C. on Nov. 3, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Can Senator Corker Save the State Department?
The gross misconduct of Rex Tillerson and the White House toward career diplomats and the Foreign Service might require an unlikely savior.
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in Ankara on Oct. 31. (Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images) The Trump Administration Can’t Give Turkey a Hall Pass on Rule of Law
Turkey wants to play “hostage diplomacy” with the United States. But the risks of transactional politics have far-reaching consequences.
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President Donald Trump greets Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak outside of the West Wing of the White House on Sept. 12. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) If Trump Forgets About Human Rights in Asia, the World Will Suffer
The United States ignores massive abuses at its own peril.
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Journalists at the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 13, 2015. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) It’s Time for the State Department to Stop Throwing Money at Facebook
We need to demand accountability from social media companies — and from U.S. diplomats.
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Senator Bob Corker speaks to the press on Sep. 9, 2015. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Corker and Cotton’s False Promises Would Push Iran Toward Nuclearization
The Republican senators want to keep the JCPOA while adding new restrictions. It won’t work.
