Samantha Power

October 22, 2024 | David Adesnik |

UN-Backed Monitors Say Access to Food Improves in Gaza

A new quarterly report from a UN-backed monitoring group says that only 6 percent of Gazans face “catastrophic” food insecurity, the lowest figure reported since the start of the war. The assessment...

July 7, 2024 | David Adesnik |

Israel helped avert a famine in Gaza but gets no credit

This is the headline you never saw: “Famine averted in Gaza; Israel and UN facilitate surge of humanitarian aid.” The news is true, anchored in data collected by the leading global authority...

June 25, 2024 | |

Expert Panel Says ‘Imminent’ Famine in Gaza Never Materialized

The panel of food security experts whose assessment last March of an “imminent” famine in northern Gaza was widely reported have now concluded that it never materialized. The...

March 16, 2022 | Tony Badran |

Team Biden Runs the Syria Playbook on Ukraine

The administration’s horror over Putin’s war is not merely performative, but functional—in the service of realigning with Iran

December 22, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Biden’s defense of democracy

It left a lot to be desired

March 4, 2021 | David Adesnik |

What Red Line Tells Us About Syria’s Chemical Weapons

Book review: Joby Warrick’s book brings to life the history and reaction to Syria’s chemical weapons program and the difficulty in eliminating it.

November 26, 2018 | Tony Badran, Michael Doran

Trump Is Crude. But He’s Right About Saudi Arabia.

On the strategic questions that matter in the Middle East, the president is cleareyed.

July 13, 2017 |

Trump Administration Should Uphold Sanctions on Sudan

Tuesday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order...

February 17, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Face-Off

Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...

February 2, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer

Israel, the Palestinians and the United Nations: Challenges for the New Administration

Download the full testimony here Chairm...

January 4, 2017 | Orde Kittrie |

What UNSCR 2334 Could Mean Beyond the United Nations, and How the Trump Administration Can Respond

Notwithstanding the distractions of the holiday season, a considerable debate has erupted over the significance of U.N. Security Council ...

December 28, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Team Obama is not done slamming Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fuming over President Obama’s abstention in last week’s anti-Israel vote at the United Nations. Israelis warn Obama may have even more in...

December 21, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The sorrow and the pity in Syria

Over the last five years, Syria has been descending into a hell on Earth. Over the last four months, the lowest depths of the...

November 21, 2016 | Tony Badran |

Obama Tries to Pin his Syria Policy on Trump

Talking to reporters in Germany on Thursday, President Barack Obama expressed the ho...

October 12, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The problem with peace processes

When peace-loving people sit down together in a spirit of compromise they can find ways to resolve their conflicts. Does it follow that negotiations with those who don’t care a fig about pe...

February 17, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

Bystanders to genocide

It’s surprising how time slips away: Five years ago next month, President Obama proclaimed a “responsibility to act” when American “interests and values are at stake.&rdqu...

October 30, 2015 | |

The Unbearable Lightness of UN Sanctions on North Korea

As far as President Obama has any discernible policy for dealing with the rising threat from North Korea, a big part of his approach entails pressuring Pyongyang with UN sanctions. So say U.S. ad...

September 18, 2015 | |

Isolation at the U.N.

In defending the Iran nuclear deal to Congress, President Obama and his staff argued repeatedly that rejection would leave America in dire isolation at the United Nations. Obama can now relax. Ha...

July 21, 2015 | |

The Iran Nuclear Deal From Hell, and UN Ambassador Samantha Power in the Age of Genocide

Thirteen years ago, Samantha Power made a name for herself with her Pulitzer prize-winning book, “‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide.” In this book, sh...

April 13, 2015 | Claudia Rosett |

And Now, Iran Wins a Seat on Governing Board of UN Agency for Women

It’s not only at the nuclear talks that Iran is goose-stepping right over those polite U.S. diplomats to grab all it can get. At the United Nations, Iran has just w...