Nicki Minaj and Mike Waltz team up at the UN
‘Please join me in welcoming a daughter of the Caribbean, a champion of the oppressed and a sister in Christ’
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Gavin Newsom flies to UN climate summit
There’s something deeply disingenuous about Newsom’s endless climate crowing
Thursday
Activist silence over Sudan speaks volumes
Forces that mobilized over Gaza have, in the case of atrocities being committed in Sudan, fallen almost entirely silent
Sunday
The UN’s ‘climate crisis’ tax
Countries deemed ‘vulnerable’ to climate change would receive payments
The right’s dangerous embrace of soft isolationism
Not only is withdrawing from the world a bad idea, it’s fundamentally un-conservative
Friday
Trump admonishes the United Nations
He denounced the UN itself as a colossal failure
Liz Truss showed up Biden at the UN
It wasn’t the American president who sounded like the leader of the free world
Saturday
How an international community of do-gooders made the US lose the plot in Yemen
As British Ambassador to Yemen, I watched Washington with growing frustration
Tuesday
The ICC’s moral reckoning over sex abuse claims
Chief prosecutor is accused of horrifying personal misconduct
Thursday
Trump’s choice on a replacement UN ambassador is complex
The President decided to yank Elise Stefanik’s nomination because of the slender Republican majority in the House
Thursday
New York mayor Eric Adams indicted on federal charges
‘I always knew that if I stood my ground, for all of you, that I would be a target. And a target I became’
Thursday
How the Special Relationship could be renewed after US-UK elections
Keir Starmer says British ties with the US are ‘vital to our shared security’
Monday
Why Blue Line peace is proving elusive
The UN is constrained by its mandate in South Lebanon amid escalations between Israel and Hezbollah
Monday
Is John Fetterman the new Kyrsten Sinema?
Plus: UN Women fails women & Biden’s motorcade hit
Thursday
COP28 is nothing but hot air
Climate action must and surely will move forward, but so far the conference is a handful of desert sand
Wednesday
The UN’s constant famine crisis problem
The World Food Program’s manic rhetoric could lead to accusations of crying wolf
Sunday
Where in the world is Greta Thunberg?
She was missing recently from the UN. Is she due for a rebrand?
Monday
The UN gets ready for hell week
From ‘Ukraine fatigue’ to the size of the Security Council, the body has a lot on its plate
Tuesday
The Taliban’s rough year in power
Time for a review of Biden’s Afghanistan policy
Wednesday
America has few good options in Haiti
US missionaries have been kidnapped by a gang — yet there’s very little we can do about it
