President Joe Biden has adopted begging as a new diplomatic strategy. Oil prices are high, filling Saudi coffers and offering Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a chance to add another yacht, French chalet, or even Rembrandt — presumably a real one,…
The State Department motto, “Diplomacy In Action,” has always seemed vainglorious, and after seven months of Joe Biden at the helm, a rebranding seems in order. In light of the amateurish job it played in evacuating Afghanistan, a more accurate…
In his book on John F. Kennedy, Profile of Power, Richard Reeves writes about the late president’s concerns about communist influence over the civil rights movement. Reeves describes a meeting at which Kennedy asked Martin Luther King Jr. to fire two…
In just a few months as president, Biden has revved up America’s abortion machine, temporarily slowed during the Trump administration. All progress is being rolled back. President Trump enacted a regulation closing a loophole in Title X that allowed medical…
Last week, the State Department filed a complaint against the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for allegedly using anal swab COVID-19 tests on American diplomats entering China. Visitors to China are expected to be tested for COVID-19 in this manner,…
Episode 1: Give ’Em Hell, Harry! About a decade after he left the Oval Office, Harry Truman hosted an emissary from Israel’s prime minister in his Independence, Missouri, home. After sharing a stroll around the neighborhood, greeting all and sundry…
A product of Harvard, a university that has been especially effective in building global citizens, George Kent, a career official at the State Department, demonstrated during the presidential impeachment inquiry that he understands better than the rest of us what…
A major loss has occurred in the Trump administration, one that undermines the hard work to conceive and implement a literal “Trump Doctrine” in foreign policy, and it appears that President Trump is unaware of what fully happened or what’s…
The biggest obstacles to peace between Palestinians and Israelis are the Palestinian Authority (PA), its president Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO, and Fatah — the very parties that have been promoted as Israel’s peace partners for the last 25 years. After…
