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September 20, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Donald Trump Has Vowed to Raise Tariffs. Can He?

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. Congress is empowered to set tariff policy, but it has delegated much of its authority to the president.

Shipping containers at Port Newark, New Jersey
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

August 20, 2024

Human Trafficking
Shadi Kourosh: Medical Community Efforts to Identify and Combat Human Trafficking

A Conversation with Dr. Arianne Shadi Kourosh, MD, MPH, Director of Community Health at the Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School.

A gang member and inmate plays with his son, who is being carried by his partner, in a prison in Quetzaltepeque, on the outskirts of San Salvador June 16, 2012.
Blog Post by Ann Norris Women Around the World

August 30, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Sit Down With CNN

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: The Democratic presidential nominee wasn’t asked about the biggest issues she would face as preside…

Harris and Wlatz ii
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

August 8, 2024

Nigeria
The Myth of the ‘Leaderless’ African Protest

Rather than being leaderless, contemporary African protests are being steered by a leadership no one saw coming.

Organizers address the press, as anti-government demonstrations against bad governance and economic hardship continue, in Lagos, Nigeria on August 5, 2024.
Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

July 27, 2016

Cuba
Cuba and the American Bar Association

The motto of the American Bar Association (or ABA) is "Defending Liberty, Pursuing Justice." It should perhaps be revised to "Defending Liberty, Pursuing Justice, and Travel to Cuba."  Right now t…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

September 19, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The United Nations General Assembly Votes to Remove Jews from Jerusalem's Old City

The most recent UN General Assembly resolution on Israel and the Palestinians is a radical strike at Israel and would push Jews out of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

September 16, 2024

Nigeria
The Unmaking of an Elite

The great tragedy of Nigerian tertiary education is the debasement of its professoriate.

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) members staged a protest against prolonged strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Lagos, Nigeria on September 19, 2022.
Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

December 16, 2013

United States
The Un-American Studies Association

The American Studies Association has voted 2-to-1 for an academic boycott of Israel. The best comment on this move came from former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, who criticized the idea that …

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points