“Living next to you, is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant,” Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau once famously quipped regarding Canadian policy vis-à-vis the United States. “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one ...
Not much goes on without the US president tweeting about it, yet when Mexico was struck by an 8.2 earthquake that took more than 90 lives, days went by without any acknowledgement from Donald Trump. During those few days, Mexico ...
Aziza: Was it terrorism? After news broke of the Las Vegas mass shooting, the same pattern of actions quickly emerged that has become a defining part of America’s response to grief. The Left demanded stricter gun laws. The Right refused ...
In July of this year, both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch formally accused the “U.S. led coalition” of having potentially committed war crimes in Mosul, in their quest to retake the strategically vital Iraqi city from ISIS. They claimed ...
Over the past few months, the US and North Korea have been exchanging a battle of rhetoric leaving many wondering whether war is looming across the Asia-Pacific. The UN Security Council recently passed the harshest level of sanctions against North ...
With Germans heading to the voting booths this Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands as the de facto, unchallenged leader of the country. Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union, is polling about 15 percent ahead of its main challenger, Social ...
In March 2014, Brazil was rocked by a corruption scandal that drastically altered the country’s political, social, and economic environment. Known as Operation Carwash, this investigation involved Brazil’s largest construction firms, the state oil company Petrobras, and politicians of the ...
American media outlets like CNN and Fox News routinely cover Putin’s closest advisors, like Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, but journalists often overlook one of his closest allies, United Russia party member and Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin. He ascended to ...
On April 4th 2017, Bashar Al-Assad and his regime reportedly used a sarin gas attack against their own civilians, killing approximately 80 people and injuring many more. Mere hours after the report came out, President Donald Trump alerted the American ...
In early April of this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with US President Trump for the first time. During the two-day summit held at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the two world leaders discussed North Korea as well as ...