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David A. Andelman: Covid vaccine resisters get blasted by French President Emmanuel Macron. Touché.
Macron's criticism can seem dangerously impolitic to Americans. But in fact, this couldn't come at a more appropriate — and likely carefully selected — moment. → Read More
David A. Andelman: Black Friday shopping amid port pileups presents an opportunity for China
Black Friday shopping amid port pileups presents opportunity for China. → Read More
David A. Andelman: France says Australian submarine deal with U.S., U.K. is a slap in the face. And it is.
Biden's snub raises the question of whether the U.S. and Europe have a future together — at least one in which America can be relied upon as a constant partner. → Read More
Opinion: President Joe Biden is making a major mistake on Afghanistan
David A. Andelman writes that President Joe Biden should not be setting a date for withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan since the reason the US first entered the country -- to address a major terrorist threat -- has not been fully addressed. → Read More
The window of opportunity is closing fast on an Iran nuclear deal (Opinion)
The US has taken a giant step back into the world community by joining the Vienna talks on the Iran nuclear deal, writes David A. Andelman. → Read More
What Biden and Blinken don't want to tell Americans about Afghanistan (Opinion)
David Andelman writes that there's a harsh reality Americans may have to face about Afghanistan -- US troops are going to be in Afghanistan for a long time. → Read More
Opinion: The case for issuing Covid-19 vaccine passports
The world's Covid-battered economy could benefit from a system identifying those who'd been vaccinated against Covid-19, writes David A. Andelman. Although there are valid ethical concerns about creating two-tier societies, a Covid passport would allow business venues to screen for admission and perhaps also persuade countries still barring visitors to admit those who've been vaccinated. → Read More
The tough message Biden just sent Iran (Opinion)
With an airstrike against Iran-backed Syrian militias, President Joe Biden signaled in a measured and direct way -- more than his previous two predecessors -- that Iran can no longer use militias in Syria and Iraq as proxies to attack western, especially American, interests anywhere in the region, writes David Andelman. → Read More
The tough message Biden just sent Iran (Opinion)
With an airstrike against Iran-backed Syrian militias, President Joe Biden signaled in a measured and direct way -- more than his previous two predecessors -- that Iran can no longer use militias in Syria and Iraq as proxies to attack western, especially American, interests anywhere in the region, writes David Andelman. → Read More
Opinion: The world watches, stunned as Trump is cleared
David A. Andelman writes that the great fear in many quarters abroad is that Trump's budding autocracy was not simply a brutal interregnum, and that Biden's administration is but a brief interlude before America plunges again into the deep spiral that has marked the last four years. "Trump's actions and the fact that only seven of the 50 Republican senators were willing to vote for his… → Read More
George Shultz's critical lessons for today's America (Opinion)
David A. Andelman writes about George Shultz's legacy as secretary of state. His masterful hand helped guide US-Soviet relations at the tail end of the Cold War, and shaped international relations for decades to come. → Read More
Opinion: Biden's foreign policy is a revolutionary change from the Trump era
In the first two weeks of the Joe Biden presidency, through the medium of Thursday's powerful speech, sweeping executive orders, a raft of phone calls to leaders on every continent, and an astonishingly, at time exhaustingly regular, series of press conferences, the first outlines of a Biden foreign and defense policy have begun to emerge. It is as total a reversal of the policies of his… → Read More
Opinion: The whole world is watching Biden as he takes charge
David Andelman writes that from Day One, America's allies and adversaries will be watching President-elect Joe Biden as he rebuilds the shattered image of America that Donald Trump had cultivated from his first day, four long years ago. → Read More
Opinion: The world watches Washington with horror
David Andelman writes that as pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol, the rest of the world watched as the centuries-long position occupied by the US as the shining pillar of rational government was being sacrificed to the hubris of one leader on his way out. → Read More
Opinion: What the death of Iran's top nuclear scientist could mean for Biden
The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh could set off a tinder box of violence between Iran, Israel and the US -- and put the incoming Biden administration in a tight spot when it comes to resetting relations with Tehran, writes David A. Andelman. → Read More
Opinion: What Biden's new security and diplomatic team can do for America
Joe Biden's choice of Antony Blinken as Secretary of State, Jake Sullivan as National Security Adviser and Avril Haines as Director of National Intelligence can help restore America's standing in the world and bring back sanity to US diplomacy, writes David Andelman. → Read More
Trump seeks to lock in a set of irreversible foreign-policy decisions (opinion)
In the final stretch of his first term, David A. Andelman writes, President Trump is rushing to secure foreign-policy objectives that would be hard for a successor to undo → Read More
What Europe fears most about the US election (opinion)
Europe, but particularly France and Germany, recognize that the future of the trans-Atlantic relationship, the very nature of the Atlantic alliance, could depend on the outcome of the US presidential election, writes David Andelman. → Read More
Is Donald Trump leading America toward a Belarusian model presidency? (opinion)
David Andelman writes that the foundations of America's legitimacy on the world stage could eventually rest, at least in part, on the question of just how many other countries would even recognize a president who failed to win a clear mandate of the American electorate. → Read More
It'll cost you 55 cents to protect your vote this November (opinion)
David Andelman writes that in an effort to combat Trump's attempt to underfund the postal service in the lead up to the election, Americans should send their mail-in ballots with 55-cent postage, or first class stamps, rather than relying on third-class mail, which can take as long as 10 days to reach its destination. → Read More