Tag: USA

(USA/Republican Party/Nikki Haley) Nikki Haley’s Campaign for the 2024 GOP Nomination Has Begun (The National Interest)

Rachel Bucchino Haley’s comments are the most powerful yet against the former president she once purported to support, as she’s see-sawed opportunistically between remaining as...

(USA/Republican Party) What Happens to the Republican Party After Impeachment? (The National Interest)

Alan Tonelson New polling shows us where the GOP might go and if Trumpism could survive without Trump. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-happens-republican-party-after-impeachment-178255

(Japan/Europe/USA/Security) Report Publication: “Allies Growing Closer: Japan–Europe Security Ties in the Age of Strategic Competition” by Dr. Jeffrey Hornung

Jeffrey Hornung The report describes the different types of cooperation in the security domain between Japan and European countries, the two most reliable allies for the United States in light of the current resurgence of great...

(USA/Anti Vaccination Conspiracies) Anti-Vaccination Conspiracies: The Dangers to Vaccination Sites (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

By Elise Thomas, OSINT Analyst Over the weekend of 30 January, one of the US’s largest mass vaccination sites was temporarily shut down after protesters gathered at...

(USA/Virginia/Privacy Law) Virginians Deserve Better Than This Empty Privacy Law (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

HAYLEY TSUKAYAMA A very weak consumer data privacy bill is sailing through the Virginia legislature with backing from Microsoft and Amazon, which have both testified in...

(USA/Pandemic) Covid-19 and the Military: Maintaining Operations While Supporting Civil Society (CSIS)

Adam Saxton, Mark Cancian The response to the coronavirus pandemic presents the Biden administration with its first defining challenge. The Department of Defense (DoD) played...

(Iran/USA) Iran’s Intelligence Minister Sends a Clear Signal to the Biden Administration (BESA Center)

Erfan Fard A recent television interview with Iranian Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alavi provides President Joe Biden’s national intelligence team with useful information as it...

(USA/Kurds/Houthis) Kurds Are More Deserving Of Terror Delisting Than Houthis (1945)

By Michael Rubin Secretary of State Antony Blinken today announced the revocation of the terror designation of Ansarallah, the main Houthi organization in Yemen. “The revocations are intended to ensure...

(USA/Afghanistan) Afghan Study Group’s New Report Would Guarantee Failure (1945)

Daniel Davis When a report comes out of Washington that has been co-authored by a who’s who group of, among others, former Secretaries of Defense,...

(India/USA) Assessing the trajectory of India-US ties under Biden (ORF)

RAJESWARI PILLAI RAJAGOPALAN U.S. President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke for the first time this week after Biden took office in...

(USA/Economy) How many jobs will Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus plan create?

Matt Weidinger Compared with the abundant attention focused on tens of millions of stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment benefits, and child allowances that Democrats’ $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan would provide, the...

(USA/Politics) After the ballots are counted: Conspiracies, political violence, and American exceptionalism (AEI)

Daniel A. Cox Americans are sharply divided over the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Nearly all Democrats (98 percent) and roughly three-quarters (73 percent) of...

(USA/Yemen) Biden’s Yemen policy won’t work any better than Trump’s (AEI)

Danielle Pletka The Biden administration has announced an end for US support to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s operations in Yemen, just as it’s also...

(USA/Economy) Larry Summers is right on the economy for the wrong reason (AEI)

Desmond Lachman Larry Summers has to be admired for the courage of his convictions to rail against President Joe Biden’s proposed budget stimulus package. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/larry-summers-is-right-on-the-economy-for-the-wrong-reason/

(USA/Economy) Biden’s unemployment checks would harm economy (AEI)

Michael R. Strain At a time when the economy is growing rapidly again, the last thing Congress should do is make unemployment more financially rewarding...

(USA/Black Americans) Three ways the Biden administration can promote economic security for Black Americans (Brookings)

Martha Ross Over the past year, two issues have erupted into the national consciousness: jobs and racial justice. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/02/12/three-ways-the-biden-administration-can-promote-economic-security-for-black-americans/