Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced July 29 that President Trump wanted a U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan before the 2020 election—something the president has wanted in the past, but it has yet to happen. It’s been nearly 18 years since the United States invaded Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, in response to the 9/11 […]
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Groups Urge Human Rights Focus During Pakistan PM Visit
Members of the Sindh Caucus and the Sindhi American Political Action Committee (SAPAC) voiced concerns about human rights violations in Pakistan’s Sindh Province to U.S. officials during Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s three-day visit to the United States in July. In a bipartisan letter addressed to President Donald Trump, 10 members of Congress urged the […]
Iranian Revolution at 40: Escaping the ’79 Hostage Crisis
It was around 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 4, 1979, almost 40 years ago, when Mark Lijek, a 29-year-old American Citizens Services officer for the U.S. Consulate in Tehran, heard commotion outside his office. That day, Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured 66 Americans. The takeover was, in part, a response to […]
DHS and DOJ Increase Restrictions for Asylum Seekers
The Departments of Homeland Security and Justice announced Monday new restrictions for asylum seekers from third countries who pass through Mexico trying to enter the United States across the southern border. Specifically, the joint Interim Final Rule (IFR) allows U.S. entry to asylum seekers from third countries who qualify under three exceptions. They must demonstrate […]
Perspective: Realists, Nationalists, and ‘Liberal World Order’
From Claremont Review of Books Realists and nationalists are winning the current U.S. foreign policy debate. Rejecting internationalist policies to build a “liberal world order” through the spread of democracy, markets, and global institutions, they advocate a strategy that defends America’s borders and preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, calling for intervention in other hemispheres only when […]