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Rubio: Dropping FARC from terrorist list threatens Colombians, US security (Mychael Schnell, The Hill)

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Wednesday said that removing the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) would...

Poll: Democracy is under attack, and more violence may be the future (Peter Fenn, The Hill)

Democracy is on life support, and voters know it. It isn’t just about the inflated, angry rhetoric or the videos depicting grotesque violence directed from...

New White House office to coordinate climate change policies (Zack Budryck, The Hill)

The White House is set to create a new division of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) that will coordinate federal climate...

Sudan’s ‘democratic transition is inevitable,’ says the country’s just-resigned foreign minister (Katherine Walla, Atlantic Council)

The Sudanese military’s reinstallation of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok “seems to have shaken the picture,” and for some people, the situation may be “a...

How Iran sees the Biden doctrine for the JCPOA and Persian Gulf (Javad Heiran-Nia, Atlantic Council)

Iranian experts in Tehran see the Joe Biden administration’s approach toward Iran and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the context of...

The EU contributed to its own energy crisis, but diversification can solve it (Ellen Wald, Atlantic Council)

Power shortages and sky-high natural gas prices are raising very real fears that millions of European households could see blackouts or be unable to afford to...

Embracing Afghan refugees is a strategic opportunity for the US (Sarah Dawn Petrin, Atlantic Council)

While helping evacuees from Afghanistan at a US government facility in Virginia in September, I was struck by the excitement of the families gathered...

How to Deter Russia Now (Daniel Fried, John E. Herbst, Alexander Vershbow, Atlantic Council)

War drums are beating in Europe. For the second time this year, Moscow is assembling up to 100,000 troops and military hardware on its...

Second Lawyer Working On High Treason Case Flees Russia (RFE RL)

A second lawyer for jailed Russian journalist Ivan Safronov, who is charged with high treason, has fled the country. Yevgeny Smirnov told The Insider investigative group on...

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