President Joe Biden has spoken passionately about the “clear and urgent choice” we face as citizens of an interconnected world, asking the United Nations General Assembly in September whether we will…
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has made no secret of its desire to extricate the United States from the Middle East. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in an interview before taking…
The United States’ network of alliances has long been a central pillar of its foreign policy—and, as competition with China has intensified in recent years, held up as a major U.S. advantage. The…
It is “the biggest geopolitics test of the 21st century”, as Biden called it. This relationship of conflict and mistrust between America and China has significant implications for the world and…
A year ago the U.S. Democratic President Joe Biden was elected to succeed the Republican President Donald Trump, but until this moment his policy on Syria, if any, has not been announced. We have…
When US President Joe Biden took office early this year, no shifts in US foreign policy and its global alliances were noticed. Instead, the United States altered its orientation and stance on many…
“We’re putting diplomacy first and seeing where that takes us,” US President Joe Biden said during his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the White House on August 27. “But…
A few days after the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban, Ann Hornaday, a film critic in The Washington Post wrote that “we have seen this movie before.” This often-used expression also has…
President Joe Biden’s decision to donate 500 million COVID-19 vaccines to other countries by June 2022 is an important step toward restoring the United States’ global standing. Another, parallel…
Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line:
The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is there can be no instant…
From a US military build-up in the region to Trump's growing unpopularity at home, several factors could influence his decision on whether or not to attack
Investors' flight into precious metals is symptomatic of the economic upheaval and uncertainty being causes by US President Donald Trump and his trade wars
Former Médecins Sans Frontières president Rony Brauman explains to Al Majalla how Israel's war on Gaza has produced unprecedented suffering and exposed the collapse of international law
Recent events do not mean the end of the SDF as a local actor, but rather the end of a political chapter built on outdated assumptions. The next chapter will be more fluid and unpredictable.
The economy is a mess and the politics are askew but the Lebanese are once again learning how to celebrate, these days to the tune of Badna Nrou, meaning 'We need to calm down'