On a razor’s edge
The relationship between Washington and Moscow today is more fraught with tension and uncertainty than it has been since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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These conservative researchers say the U.S. military has become ‘weak’ and ‘marginal’
“We’ve had much less levels of spending than, as this report shows, we need,” said Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, who is chairman of the House Armed Services Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee and a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Week in Review
A look at cybersecurity under a new president-elect.
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Why we wrote the essay about covering a Trump rally in Green Bay
It was a Tuesday afternoon, a few hours removed from the 3,000 Donald Trump supporters who taunted us with racist rhetoric while we were reporting on the rally. We’d just wanted to produce a good story. However, overwhelmed with emotion, we concluded that a personal narrative was necessary.
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New Washington think tank urges detente with Russia (Part Two)
The Defense Priorities Foundation was founded in early 2016 in order to promote what it calls a “more prudent, restrained foreign policy” based less on military intervention and more on diplomacy and economic exchange. The think tank is staffed by conservative and libertarian foreign policy researchers and advisers. I spoke with Defense Priorities foreign policy fellow and defense expert Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (USA, Ret.) about the state of the U.S.-Russia relations and if the two governments can resolve their geopolitical differences amid an atmosphere of mutual acrimony.
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New Washington think tank urges detente with Russia (Part One)
The Defense Priorities Foundation was founded in early 2016 in order to promote what it calls a “more prudent, restrained foreign policy” based less on military intervention and more on diplomacy and economic exchange. The think tank is staffed by conservative and libertarian foreign policy researchers and advisers. I spoke with Defense Priorities fellow Matt Purple about the state of the U.S.-Russia relations and if the two governments can resolve their geopolitical differences amid an atmosphere of mutual acrimony.
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Turkmenistan Independence Day overshadowed by treatment of press
To protest the country’s government’s treatment of journalists, Reporters Without Borders held a rally in front of the Turkmenistan Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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World Bank president urges innovation in fight to end global poverty
World Bank President Kim called on his organization to find new, creative ways to partner with the private sector to reduced global extreme poverty and help the world’s poorest.
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US Institute of Peace celebrates International Day of the Girl
The United Nations’ International Day of the Girl is honored by The United States Institute of Peace with a celebration of youth activists and leaders from the Middle East and North Africa.
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Former CIA director addresses “Darking sky” of cyberseurity threats
Former CIA Director General Michael Hayden said Tuesday that cyber threats are not as dire as some have predicted, but is concerned about the rise of individual cyberterrorists .
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