The Summit of the Americas is coming up in ealry June. Who will be there? What's at stake?  Is it... more

The night before the war begain, a calm confidence prevailed in President Zelensky's office.  Peter Van Praagh, President of Halifax... more

Assimilation is better than integration, counsels Ambassador Michael Polt of ASU's Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab.  Assimilation says: "I... more

Immigration expert Eric Farnsworth is back to parse what he describes as our unilateral disarmament diplomatically in the Western Hemisphere,... more

Bringing Europe and China to Africa and Granola Bars to Jail - originally posted in March 2018.  Enjoy!

Overseas and at home, Foreign Service officers face danger to themselves and their careers, from Benghazi to McCarthyism to the... more

War crimes and genocide, from the Holocaust of World War II to Ukraine today, and many other places on earth.... more

No one guessed Ukraine could succeed in combatting Putin. How has the country done it? What has Putin got wrong?... more

The world has lost a great stateswoman; Pete has lost a mentor. Reviled by autocrats, loved by Cuban Americans, Madeleine... more

What, exactly, is a sanction?  An embargo?  How do they help Ukraine and the West defeat Putin's aggression?  Are they... more