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The Conference on Diversity in International Affairs brings together college and graduate students and young professionals from diverse backgrounds for plenaries on foreign policy topics, seminars on professional development, and opportunities to interact virtually with senior foreign policy professionals. The 2021 conference featured a keynote session with President of the Ford Foundation Darren Walker.The 2021 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs is a collaborative effort by the ...

Conservative Columnist Nails The Big Differences Between Biden, Trumps First 100 Days "He is actually trying to do his job rather than simply drawing attention to himself," Max Boot wrote of Biden in his column for The Washington Post. The stark differences between the first 100 days of US President Joe Biden’s administration and that of his predecessor, ex-President Donald Trump, were laid bare by The Washington Post’s conservative columnist Max Boot on Tuesday. “Simply by not inciting h...

I have to talk about Tucker Carlson today, which is a shame. There are eleventy billion more important things popping off right now. India is literally on fire from all the bodies that are burning, thanks to COVID deaths; mass shootings are as common as birdsong this spring; and the giant segment of congressional Republicans who tried to overthrow the government are now pretending it never happened, and might actually get away with it. Even absent all that, I can’t recall a day in my life whe...

Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP As someone who once considered myself Never Trump, I feel well qualified to comment on the activities of those who still cling to that label after the 2020 election. For rational people who are not trying to cling to accumulated power or trying to recover their influence, Never Trump was over on election night 2016. It was either going to be President Clinton II or President Trump, and in hindsight, I am glad it was the latter. Did I love every tweet? No. ...

Bidens Afghanistan Critics are Wrong | Opinion On 4/22/21 at 1:00 PM EDT Standing behind a lectern in the White House Treaty Room on April 14, President Joe Biden made one of the most fateful U.S. foreign policy decisions of the last two decades: after 2,488 U.S. fatalities, over 20,000 wounded and $2.6 trillion, the U.S. military is pulling out of Afghanistan by September 11 (at the latest). For Biden, a man who never bought into counterinsurgency, withdrawing the last 2,500 U...

Biden’s Instincts Are Right: Leaving Afghanistan Is the Right Call The political aims of the war as a nation-building operation were unwinnable and the best choice in American interests is to bring the troops home. Tuesday’s announcement by President Biden that “it is time to end America’s longest war” and withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year has disappointed some in the national security establishment. Eliot A. Cohen, dean of the Johns Hopkins Un...

Is America’s longest forever war really coming to an end? Adam Weinstein and Stephen Wertheim © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Manpreet Romana/AFP/Getty Images Last Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw all US ground troops from Afghanistan by September 11, the two-decade anniversary of the attacks that brought on the war. Then he visited the fallen at Arlington National Cemetery. A reporter asked him whether his decision was hard to make. “No, ...

Commentary: John L. Micek - Voters already saying yes to infrastructure spending plan John L. Micek FacebookTwitterEmail Do you support: • Repairing and rebuilding America’s deteriorating network of roads and bridges, including the interstate highway system brought to life by GOP President Dwight D. Eisenhower? • Ensuring that every American public student isn’t drinking water out of lead pipes and doesn’t attend class in buildings riddled with toxic chemicals? • Giving every Americ...

Lessons For The World From The Latest Failed War In Afghanistan April 19, 2021 “I’m now the fourth United States president to preside over American true presence in Afghanistan; two Republicans, two Democrats. I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth.” So intoned President Joe Biden in a speech marking the potential end of the War in Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Had Donald Trump won his second term, the war would have ended in May, instead of September. As the “w...

Israel Trying to Kill Iran Deal Secretary of State Tony Blinken says that the Biden administration “wants to extend and strengthen” the Iran Deal. The New York Times says Biden is trying to “salvage” the deal that Trump “repudiated.” This technically isn’t true. “Repudiated” means that you refuse to accept something. Iran had an agreement with the United States and the United States violated that agreement, thus killing the deal. Biden’s not trying to salvage the agreement,...