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Biden promises diplomacy but offers more militarism

Biden promises diplomacy but offers more militarism

The president has disappointed those who hoped he would begin extricating us from the Middle East.

Trump was right: Get out of Afghanistan

Trump was right: Get out of Afghanistan

Biden should honor what looks like the best deal we’re ever going to get in that country.

Poisoner in Chief review by London Review of Books

It​ was during the fallout from Watergate that the American public first heard of MK-Ultra, the most notorious of the secret mind control programmes that the CIA ran through the 1950s and 1960s. After Nixon’s men were caught breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in June 1972, Richard Helms, then director of the CIA, refused to […]

Latin America has slipped on Washington’s list of priorities

Latin America has slipped on Washington’s list of priorities

Biden has a lot on his plate, but there should be room to reimagine our relationships in Central and South America.

US military helicopters seen in 2020 at one of America's hundreds of overseas military bases, Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.

Biden’s same old foreign policy

Our new president offers a clean break in many ways, but he’ll still try to have the United States run the world.