Smart people who dislike President Trump are capable of saying the stupidest things. Take, for example, Hal Brands, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, whose latest column in Bloomberg is titled “Canada Made America Great.” Even if Brands…
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this bombshell during Wednesday’s White House Cabinet meeting: “We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans.” Rubio offered that he is surprised a federal…
The foreign aid complex is a racket. The harm it has done over the decades far exceeds its egregious waste of taxpayer dollars. For years, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its network of taxpayer-funded “partners” have promoted…
I have dealt with USAID for nearly four decades now, and my overall impression has been akin to Longfellow’s description of the little girl with a curl: There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the…
In 2007 New York City-based professor and economist William Easterly published his intentionally provocative book, White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. In it, he argued that after…
A flurry of executive orders and the specter of a reorganization of USAID have focused attention on a sphere of policy in need of reform. In addition to the often-cited issue of wasted tax dollars, serious matters such as terror…
A mere weeks before giving up power, the Biden–Harris administration continues to hamstring Israel in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack. In a recent New York Times interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, he was asked essentially…
As Romania’s presidential candidate who is most Trump-like in his message, Călin Georgescu surged toward victory against a leftwing female opponent (sometimes called “Kamala”) in the election’s Dec. 8 final vote, the U.S. State Department issued a threatening warning about…
President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Michael Anton to be the State Department’s director of policy and planning bodes well for the country’s foreign policy as we enter what could be some of the most dangerous years of the 21st century….
