President Trump seems to be digging in for a full-fledged trade war with China. On Monday, the White House announced that it will impose tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of... Read more »
Historically, the United States has been the most welcoming nation on the planet for refugees. Since the adoption of the 1980 U.S. Refugee Act, it has taken in around 3 million of... Read more »
During various fits of anti-immigrant pique, President Trump often insists that if you don’t have borders, “you don’t have a country.” But is that really true? “Invisible Countries,” a new book by American journalist... Read more »
There is a contradiction in General Khalifa Haftar’s narrative. Although he denounces his opponents as “takfiri terrorists and Kharijites” and accuses Misrata of employing political Islam, turning to takfiri groups for help,... Read more »
There is a contradiction in General Khalifa Haftar’s narrative. Although he denounces his opponents as “takfiri terrorists and Kharijites” and accuses Misrata of employing political Islam, turning to takfiri groups for help,... Read more »
Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin has said that his country would respond to any US missiles fired at neighboring Syria by shooting them down and targeting their launch sites. In an... Read more »
don’t get me wrong. I was upset that Trump won. In fact, I still am. I often quip that, as a scholar of the far right and populism, I used to study... Read more »
If there was any doubt that Egypt’s upcoming presidential election will be neither free nor fair, the arrest of former military chief of staff Sami Anan shortly after announcing that he would... Read more »
No one should be surprised by Donald Trump’s comments Thursday – denied by the President but confirmed by multiple senators – that Haiti, El Salvador and various African nations are “shithole countries”... Read more »
I find nothing more useless than debating the existence of racism, particularly when you are surrounded by evidence of its existence. It feels to me like a way to keep you fighting... Read more »