Charles Lipson is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he founded the programme on International Politics, Economics, and Security.
Monday’s White House press conference came in two distinct parts. The first was an extraordinary tale of heroism in the rescue of two downed pilots. America’s military and intelligence leaders provided details that were new to the public. The danger of a daytime rescue mission in the face of enemy fire. The harrowing climb by
The Israeli-American air campaign against Iran will have profound global repercussions. What those repercussions will be depends on two crucial factors. First, will the bombing campaign remove the Shi’ite Islamist regime from power? We do not yet know if the campaign can accomplish that ambitious goal without foreign troops on the ground. If the US
When President Trump speaks to Congress and the nation Tuesday night he will follow several familiar tropes. Like a long line of presidents before him, Trump will say the state of the union is great and take full credit for it. They all say that, unless we are in a recession or at war. They typically add that everything is getting better, too, thanks to their wise policies. In a nod
“We gotta win the midterms,” President Donald Trump told the crowd in Iowa at the end of last month. “I’m here because we’re starting the campaign to win the midterms. That means Senate and it means House.” Trump is, by all accounts, obsessed with the upcoming elections in November. Having been distracted by various foreign
The fights in Minnesota aren’t just between the protesters and ICE, they also seem to be between President Trump and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Behind the scenes, Trump officials have been lukewarm, at best, over Noem’s performance. And polling shows her department its deep underwater. Significantly, they sent border czar Tom Homan,
The headline from Trump’s Davos speech is clear: I won’t use military force to take Greenland. That’s what the President told the world’s leading politicians and business executives at the World Economic Forum. That declaration was very good news for all of them and for US investors, who immediately started buying stocks, erasing about half
When the earthquake is big, the porcelain rattles far and wide. And that’s exactly what’s happening now… in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and even Greenland. The plates are rattling after the Trump Administration’s swift, successful mission to capture Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who was allegedly a major figure in the country’s
He needs to show he is still in charge going into the midterms after recent setbacks
If you think America doesn’t permit assisted suicide, you haven’t been watching the New York mayoral election. The city is deliberately killing itself. The country’s largest city, its financial and media capital, had a choice among three truly dreadful candidates: a deeply-tarnished former governor, a Republican who runs in every election except Homecoming Queen and
No one expects Gaza to establish a stable, comprehensive peace with Israel
October 7, two years on…
Democrats’ milquetoast calls for ‘public calm’ and ‘civil discourse’ ring hollow
But let the public – not the FCC – decide what to watch
The governor deserves our gratitude and praise
Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to turn the birthplace of liberty into its charnel house
Europe’s leaders avoided any hint of disappointment or cleavages within the alliance
Every major American city is plagued with violent crime, and every one is governed by Democrats
Money and choices for students, not for Washington bureaucrats
The city was always corrupt. Now it is broken
Unanswered questions are eroding trust in American democracy
