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Even as Washington steps back from protecting U.S. values overseas, the director argues for a vigorous and moral approach to foreign policy.
Opinion Columnist In her 2019 memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” Samantha Power, who emigrated from Ireland as a child, described how she knew, even before being naturalized, that she had become an American. “I now thought like an American, reacting to problems in the world — like the Bosnia war — by asking myself, ‘What, if anything, can we, America, do about it?’” That question has animated Power’s epic career, which has stretched from war correspondent to United Nations ambassador to, now, head of the United States Agency for International Development, the government...
(Jacana 2013) and Darwin’s Hunch (Jacana 2016). She is a Research Associate at WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research). US President Joe Biden made a statement on 24 April that officially recognised the Armenian Genocide. Between 1915 and 1917, over a million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks and another million were forced into exile. “Of those who survived,” Biden said, “most were forced to find new homes and new lives around the world, including in the United States. With strength and resilience, the Armenian people survived and rebuilt their community.” ...
President Joe Biden recognized the Armenian genocide on Saturday. On May 7, 2015, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, then-Vice President Biden and then-Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power attend the National Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Ecumenical Service at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Kris Connor/Getty Images for NCAGC WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday made good on a campaign pledge when he acknowledged that the mass slaughter of Armenians during the Ottoman era that started 106 years ago was genocide. U.S. presidents have been reluct...
for the full episode. Samantha Power knows what it’s like to take risks. President Joe Biden’s new pick for a post on his National Security Council, Samantha started out as a war correspondent in her early twenties, reporting from the Balkans. Later, she spoke out against the way governments handle genocide in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Problem From Hell—a book that caught Barack Obama’s attention when he was Senator. Samantha ended up working for Obama, first in the Senate, then in the White House, finally serving as U.N. Ambassador in Obama’s second term. But as she wri...