Opinion

We don’t know exactly why, but the White House is celebrating peace with Iran as a victory. Maybe they are celebrating having managed to defeat themselves, to overcome the irrationality…
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For more than six decades, U.S. policy toward Cuba has been defined by isolation, sanctions, and a persistent effort to pressure political change on the island. As outlined by the…
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This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse. The World Cup is, in so many ways, a distraction from the war, mass…
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According to reports, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and formally end the fighting between the two countries was…
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These days, most of Havana’s streets are fairly empty of cars, but full of people walking or riding bicycles, electric bikes, electric “tricycles,” or scooters. Trash has piled up on…
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History often repeats itself—not because lessons are missing, but because policymakers frequently choose to ignore them. In The March of Folly, historian Barbara Tuchman detailed how…
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The antiwar group CodePink says it has yet to be served with any subpoenas after it was reported over the weekend that the Trump administration has opened an investigation into a recent…
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Violence — including terrorism — against Cuba has long been tolerated in Washington; Cuba's response to it has not. That double standard is once again fully evident as the Trump…
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Cuban officials said the Trump administration is making “increasingly implausible accusations” against the country as it pushes to justify, “without any excuse, a military attack…
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No sovereign government—whether in Havana, Washington, or elsewhere—is indifferent to who controls the distribution of resources within its borders.
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