Biden’s Hezbollah Plan Is a Win-Win—for the Terrorists
Israel faces a harsh reality in an election year for the United States.
Mexico
Tyrants and expendable migrants: Dictators play with people’s lives to gain leverage
Illegal immigration through the U.S.-Mexican border is at an all-time high, straining public resources and fueling political tension in the United States. Much of what moves migrants to undertake the...
Op-eds
Remarks by Matt Pottinger at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s China Forum 2023
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Remarks
What Washington Must Do to Check China’s Coercion
The Western offer to the Global South need not premise itself on rejecting China but instead on the rules of the liberal, open capitalist system through which China and the United States have all thrived.
Op-eds
Washington Needs a New Economic Security Framework for the Americas
Washington must bring powerful answers to pressing issues in the region: populism, political unrest, and disinformation; water and food insecurity; extreme weather; mass migration; the evolving drug trade; money laundering and corruption; and weakened democratic institutions.
Op-eds
Tehran Takes Caracas
On Monday, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi began a five-day tour of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, three Latin American countries governed by authoritarian, anti-Western regimes. Raisi’s three predecessors...
Op-eds
U.S. must expose China’s hidden hand in America’s deadly fentanyl crisis
Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 49, taking tens of thousands of lives each year. The federal government is working to reduce demand for the drug at home while disrupting...
Op-eds
What Is Venezuela Flying to Moscow?
Iran is a willing accomplice in the rape of Ukraine. Iranian drones have helped Russia sustain its terror attacks against Ukrainian civilian targets and infrastructure even as Russia’s arsenal became...
Op-eds
Domestic Investments Can Aid All Democracies
Last summer's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a huge win for America's "green" game, but it also provoked worries among U.S. allies about the protectionism...
Op-eds
The United States’ Energy Future Needs Critical Minerals—and Latin America
Energy is a weapon in wartime and a key to prosperity in peacetime. As the world moves towards greater adoption of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, we need to ensure that America’s...
Op-eds
Democratic backsliding harms the potential of a US-Mexico supply chain pivot
Mexico remains one of the United States’ most important allies and trading partners, but its engagement with the U.S. is cycling between two seemingly opposing trends: the desire to attract more...
Op-eds
The Three Amigos Summit
President Biden doesn’t intend to defend America’s border
Op-eds
Workforce ‘ally-shoring’ brings benefits across borders
Excerpt After a swing and a miss with the Summit of the Americas, President Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s recent meeting at the White House was a critical opportunity to...
Op-eds
Mystery Cargo
Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?
Op-eds
The U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Must Censure Iran
A new agreement with Tehran is pointless if IAEA inspectors are unable to do their jobs properly.
Op-eds
How to Include Far More Lawfare Ammunition in Next UN General Assembly Resolution on Russian Invasion
On March 24, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted its second resolution addressing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Both this and the first resolution, adopted on March 2, symbolically demonstrated...
Op-eds
Time to integrate State Partnership Program in Pentagon planning
As currently used, the program is a missed opportunity, especially when America needs to be strengthening its relationships abroad.
Op-eds
Soleimani U
A new academic center in Caracas named after the Iranian mass murderer is the latest node in Tehran’s soft power network in Latin America
Op-eds
Biden’s North Korea Policy Needs Rebooting
A series of missile tests make it plain that carrots don’t work without sticks.
Op-eds
The new conquistadores
U.S. adversaries are becoming South American hegemons