Opinions

This section features opinion pieces related to current events and foreign policy topics.

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The Foreign Policy Blob Strikes Back: We’re Just Fine, Proclaim Architects of Endless Wars

May 14, 2020

By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute Ben Rhodes, who served as President Barack Obama’s deputy national security ...

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With Another Refugee Crisis Brewing, the European Union Can’t Afford to Repeat its Mistakes

Mar 20, 2020

The European Union (EU) has long been viewed as a liberal, multilateral success story. It has ensured peace in Europe, ...

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Saudi Arabia is Imprisoning our Relatives, While Mike Pompeo and the U.S. Cozy Up to the King

Feb 21, 2020

By Alia al-Hathloul, Ali AlAhmed, and Areej AlSadhan, NBCNews.com Last summer, when the American rapper A$AP was tried in a Swedish court on ...

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Khashoggi Inspires Writers for Life – Highlights the Importance of the Human Rights Community and Free Press

Oct 2, 2019

Within the first month at the National Interest Foundation, I met a man whose unfortunate fate would ultimately redirect my ...