Event Commentaries

Hard bargaining between two close friends over their nation’s interests is the very foundation of a transatlantic relationship, according to Dr. Kori Schake. This dynamic defines the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was founded after the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. With U.S. actions creating tensions between NATO and its allies, key questions emerge about alliance stability and U.S. national security: Can NATO remain effective if the United S

What does the average American truly know about the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)? For many, that understanding may be shaped more by movies and television, rather than by fact. Popular culture provides a familiar image of the CIA: an agent gets a call, puts on a trench coat, flies off to a foreign capital, drinks a martini, woos a beautiful woman, overthrows the government, and leaves on the midland boat. After Tim Weiner first walked into the CIA headquart

Migration and drug trafficking have been treated as national emergencies by the United States for years; President Donald Trump declared migration at the Southern Border an emergency in 2019, and the War on Drugs is decades old, with emergency declarations tracing back to the 1970s. Both issues persist, prompting executive actions that have deployed active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and applied additional economic pressure, shaping U.S. foreign policy and internati

Having the United States as a neighbor is unlike living close to any other — and Canada can attest to it. On January 15, Martin Regg Cohn quoted former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who compared living next to the U.S. as similar to sleeping with an “elephant.” “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast … one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” Canada, today, feels every twitch, every tariff, and every taunt. Regg Cohn is a political columnist