Critics decry the White House’s decision to release millions in aid that is supposed to be subject to human-rights conditions.
Biden’s Broken Vow Against ‘Blank Check’ for Egypt
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What US Defeat in Afghanistan Means for China
For the implications of U.S. global power, the collapse of Kabul was incomparably worse than the fall of Saigon, writes Alfred W. McCoy.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Power
US Concern for Cuba, Latin America Is Really Spin for Intervention
Tamara Pearson says Washington’s recent discourse is aimed at dressing itself, the bully, as the savior.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Against Us
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Arc of Decline
U.S. leaders would rather accept ever-more extreme isolation as the price of power than surrender any of it.
‘Rules-Based International Order’ Means Washington-Based International Order
U.S. officials babble endlessly about “rules” and the “rules” are literally always tools for the benefit of the U.S., which literally always flouts those “rules” worse than any other government on earth, writes Caity Johnstone.
The Fumbling King & Palestinians’ Defeat of Oslo Culture
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Aimless Empire
Under Biden, the world’s most powerful, most heavily armed, most determinedly righteous nation shows little sign of having any foreign policy at all.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: America the Innocent
The American press has been in the business of keeping readers ignorant since the Cold War—its most essential responsibility turned upside-down—and in our time it gets worse, not better.