The difficulty of managing global responsibilities while maintaining democratic values and processes has been made evident again by the on-going US strikes against Iran. This week, both houses of the US Congress will vote on …
The US Congress continues to grapple with legislation aimed at empowering US competition with China. Little time remains in the 118th Congress to finalise most of the bills that congressional committees have worked on for …
The US Congress has before it three pieces of legislation that have the potential to significantly alter the depth of US engagement with the Pacific island countries: the Boosting Long-term US Engagement in the Pacific …
President Donald Trump’s party lost control of the US House of Representatives in midterm elections held last week. However, that probably won’t have any effect on the general trajectory of Washington’s policy on the Middle …
Donald Trump’s language is limited, much like his store of ideas. The US president is a demagogue who rouses without rhetoric. A bemusing bit of Trumpworld is the small range of his rant—intense rather than …




