Arthur I. Cyr – Page 33

In this photo taken Sunday, March 8, 2020, a woman wearing a mask against COVID-19 stands near an advertisement for Huawei mobile phones in Beijing. Chinese tech giant Huawei says Tuesday, March 31, 2020, its 2019 sales rose 19.1% over a year earlier despite U.S. sanctions that hampered its smartphone and network equipment businesses. The company is embroiled in a series of disputes with Washington, which says Huawei is a security risk, an accusation it denies. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China’s Huawei faces a showdown, in court

April 8, 2020 at 8:37 a.m.

Huawei, China's giant telecommunications corporation, faces growing, extremely serious legal trouble in the United States. The current public health pandemic, and related media obsession, make serious attention to other news...

President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte during the NATO summit at The Grove, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, in Watford, England. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Events underscore importance of NATO

April 1, 2020 at 1:03 p.m.

"Most alliances die young." That is how "The Economist" magazine a year ago began an insightful special essay on the durability of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Alliance nations,...

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Larry Kudlow, White House chief economic adviser, and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Column: In the face of the coronavirus threat, mature, insightful leadership is crucial

March 25, 2020 at 9:15 a.m.

"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." This quotation is from the first inaugural address of...

Protestors demonstrate Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, in downtown Seattle. The protest was in support of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, a community in British Columbia, Canada opposing a natural gas pipeline. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Canada takes instructive approach to native people

March 20, 2020 at 9:16 a.m.

As people in the United States become ever more fixated on public health matters, our continental neighbors to the north – those other North Americans - are providing instructive lessons...

U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, left, and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar sign a peace agreement during a ceremony in the Qatari capital Doha on Feb. 29, 2020.

Cyr: America leaving Afghanistan – at last

March 13, 2020 at 8:50 a.m.

An agreement at long last has been signed between the United States and the fundamentalist Taliban movement of Afghanistan for the withdrawal of American troops. The accord includes detailed stipulations...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden gestures to Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C., on Feb. 29 after winning the South Carolina primary.

Cyr: Biden boosted by South Carolina

March 6, 2020 at 10:12 a.m.

Old Joe Biden has revived his presidential candidacy, something even hostile or indifferent media have had to admit. On Feb. 29, the extra day of Leap Year, he won the...

Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden (far left) and Tom Steyer (far right) debate as Amy Klobuchar reacts during the Democratic primary debate at the Charleston Gaillard Center on Feb. 25 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Cyr: A candidates’ debate? Not really

February 28, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.

The latest televised media melee among the surviving seekers of the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2020 is important. The significance stems from the fact that this sort of traveling...

Anti-Brexit remain in the European Union supporters protest outside the Houses of Parliament to coincide with the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London on Feb. 5.

Cyr: Brexit takes effect — sort of

February 21, 2020 at 9:08 a.m.

"Fog in channel, Continent cut off," is a very old joke about an alleged British newspaper headline regarding weather over the waterway separating them from Europe. Even a brief visit...

Cyr: The meaning of impeachment

February 14, 2020 at 8:34 a.m.

Only the third impeachment trial of a president in our history. These are the sort of words used by various media people to underscore and dramatize the alleged importance of...

Political signs for presidential candidates and a survey about the Iowa caucuses are posted on a wall at the Drake University student union on Feb. 2 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Cyr column: Iowa Caucuses retain distinctive — but not decisive — role

February 7, 2020 at 9:18 a.m.

"The corn is as high as an elephant's eye," a signature line from the classic musical "Oklahoma," comes to mind concerning the Iowa caucuses for presidential candidates. A tall large...

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