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President Joe Biden arrives at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, on Aug. 6, 2021.

Op-ed: Political appointees are a problem for foreign policy

August 13, 2021 at 2:49 p.m.

Seven months in, the Biden administration is struggling to fill hundreds of leadership positions. To be fair, it's been busy with a pandemic, economic crisis and assault on our democracy....

U.S. soldiers west of Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2012.

Op-ed: Bipartisan bill could end our casual relationship with war

July 28, 2021 at 4:22 p.m.

America has a casual relationship with war. Major campaigns like Afghanistan are only part of America's global military footprint. Even after the last U.S. troops have left Afghanistan, U.S. forces...

Families displaced by gang violence live in a shelter at a school in Petion Ville in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 13, 2021.

Op-ed: US efforts have shown that we need better foreign aid — not more of it

July 15, 2021 at 11:01 a.m.

Just this month, we've seen political collapse in Haiti and military collapse in Afghanistan. South Sudan, the world's newest nation, turned 10 years old amid looming famine, rampant corruption and...

Afghan militiamen join Afghan defense and security forces during a gathering June 23, 2021, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Op-ed: The US in Afghanistan: It was always going to end this way

July 2, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

The security situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating, prompting many to second-guess President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw U.S. troops by Sept. 11. This is an understandable emotional reaction, but it...

People walk near a pro-military image on a giant screen May 18, 2021, in Beijing.

Op-ed: With sights on China, America declares a new Cold War

June 17, 2021 at 1:30 p.m.

The Second Cold War is here. After years of growing tension between the United States and China, events this month have erased any doubt about where we are. America has...

Belarus police detain journalist Raman Pratasevich, center, in Minsk, Belarus in 2017. Just last week, the Belarusian government forcefully diverted a commercial passenger jet to arrest Protasevich, who had been living in exile.

Op-ed: Why we need to protect a free press everywhere

June 3, 2021 at 1:09 p.m.

Catching up with a friend over Zoom, I wondered recently what might have happened if China had come clean about the presence and origins of COVID-19 before it spread beyond...

President Joe Biden arrives to speak at the commencement for the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, on May 19, 2021.

Op-ed: What the world thinks of America, and why it matters

May 19, 2021 at 1:06 p.m.

One of Joe Biden's first messages to the world after the 2020 election was that America would lead "not by the example of our power, but by the power of...

People wait in line to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at a hospital in Allahabad, India, on May 1, 2021, during the first day of India's vaccination drive to all adults.

Op-ed: India’s COVID-19 crisis pushes the US to get vaccine diplomacy right

May 6, 2021 at 2:33 p.m.

India's second wave of COVID-19 is hitting like a tsunami. With it comes a warning for getting vaccine diplomacy right. India and the United States have taken opposite approaches, and...

U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit return fire on Taliban positions near the town of Garmser in Helmand province of Afghanistan in 2008.

Op-ed: Ending war doesn’t have to be this hard

April 22, 2021 at 2:08 p.m.

Since President Biden announced that he will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the public and political debate has focused on whether or not now is the...

The CMA CGM Argentina container ship arrives at PortMiami on April 6, 2021, in Miami. The port announced the 1,200-foot vessel set a new record for the largest container ship to ever call at a Florida port.

Op-ed: What a container ship stranded in the Suez Canal showed us about globalization

April 8, 2021 at 4:44 p.m.

The Ever Given had been stuck in Suez sand for nearly a week when my neighbor asked if we were sure the giant container ship hadn't been sabotaged. It seemed...

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