Tag / Kerry
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Hassan Rouhani: A Sheep or a Wolf?
BY GABE DAVIS When Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took the stage to address the most recent UN General Assembly in New York, he was not a happy man. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s friendly media blitz had inspired optimism regarding a more moderate Iran, but Netanyahu was intent on reminding us with whom exactly we…
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A Strike Will Not Help the People of Syria
BY SONYA SCHOENBERGER Over the past week, media outlets have been glutted with experts delivering cogent, informed, and completely divergent policy advice about the benefits and risks of a US strike on Syria. There seems to be a significant risk that the US is on the verge of entering into yet another long, messy war…
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Double Tracking Rides the Climate Legislation Off the Rails
Barack Obama has called health reform his top domestic priority. And though providing health insurance and care to America’s 45 million uninsured is indeed a pressing moral issue, the yearlong process has tied up the activities of Congress’s upper houseThe House of Representatives has been hard at work, passing bill after critical bill, while the…