One of my criticisms of the JCPOA is that it would become our de facto Middle East policy, and Iran would expand their destabilizing activities.
The SEC, unfortunately, has functioned in a very partisan way.
Humanitarian crises are expanding with famine now inflicting South Sudan and others threatening Somalia, Nigeria, and Ye...
In Yemen, a country with chronic natural resource and food shortfalls, the crisis is aggravated by conflicts that have c...
In Nigeria, Africa's largest country by population, millions in the northeast face starvation as Boko Haram violence has...
In South Sudan, conduct by President Kiir and the failure of the region to effectively engage with the political leaders...
In Somalia, al-Shabaab created insecurity, and lack of governing structures continue to threaten millions of Somalis.
The government actively represses dissent. A leading Venezuelan human rights group lists 117 people jailed for political...
Venezuela is a beautiful country with vast resources and talented people, and yet the situation there is very bleak.
There is reason for a degree of optimism in Iraq.
I think it is quite clear that ISIS will soon lose all of its territory in Iraq.