Mike Pompeo, CIA Director and Secretary of State in the first Trump administration, has long been a Ukraine war hawk, calling Russia’s actions genocide, stating that Crimea should be returned to Ukraine (when its people voted overwhelmingly to be part of Russia) and consistently advocating for increased...
The European Union (EU) has a population of 450 million people, yet its foreign policy is determined by a country with a population of 1.3 million people—Estonia.
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy is Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia. Her...
A bipartisan political movement is urgently needed to fight back against the CIA
On November 4, Abigail Spanberger, a CIA case officer in the Middle East from 2006 to 2014, was elected as Virginia’s 75th governor.
A Democrat who served in Congress from 2019 to 2025, Spanberger mixed criticism of Donald...
To protect the huge profits of unregulated AI companies, the Trump administration is trying to bring back a punishment that was stripped from this year’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill...
Honduras held national elections on November 30. At stake were the office of president, 125 seats in the National Congress, and more than 280 mayoral and municipal governments. Three major political parties, including the two traditional National and Liberal parties, and the more recently formed LIBRE Party,...
On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, I filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of the family of Alejandro Carranza—a Colombian fisherman who went out in his boat on the Caribbean Sea, attempting to fish for marlin and tuna, but who never came home....
The first round of Chile’s presidential election determined that center-left government candidate Jeannette Jara and far-right opposition leader José Antonio Kast will face off in the December 14 runoff. Although Jara won the first round with 26.75%—3,446,854 votes—against Kast’s 23.96%—3,086,963 votes—everything suggests that the right will win the second...
How do you sell the idea of a moderate rebellion without alienating the extremists who will do the actual fighting?
When foreign powers started supporting armed groups to overthrow the Ba’athist government in Syria after 2011, they were unsure about who could, or should, take...
Beloved by his constituents, Vito Marcantonio spoke out against bankrupt U.S. foreign policies during the Cold War and championed Puerto Rican rights
Vito Marcantonio was a visionary left-wing congressman from East Harlem from 1935 to 1937 and 1939 to 1950 who spoke out against bankrupt U.S. foreign policies during...
A recent op-ed by the New York Times Editorial Board calls for the U.S. military to reinvent itself and rearm itself in new ways in the face of the Western capitalist order losing its hegemony to rising powers across the world...
