Foreign Affairs – The Washington Inquisitor

The empty Security Council chamber at United Nations headquarters in New York

Every candidate for UN chief drew a veto-power ‘discourage’ in the first color-coded straw poll

Rebeca Grynspan still leads with nine votes, but two permanent members discouraged her, and every rival also drew at least one red ballot, 76 days before Guterres’s term ends.

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Department of State sign outside the Harry S Truman Building in Washington

Trump’s personal-friend diplomats are falling: two out in three days, a third under scrutiny

Kimberly Guilfoyle was pushed out in Athens and Paolo Zampolli fired as special envoy after an email war with Deputy Secretary Landau, while a Huckabee aide faces a Times investigation he and the ambassador dispute.

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Pelosi meets with 14th Dalai Lama in India, reaffirms congressional support for Tibet

Dharamsala, India – Today, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and a bipartisan Congressional delegation met with His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, in Dharamsala, India. The visit is Speaker Pelosi’s third official trip to Dharamsala, leading Congressional delegations in 2008 and 2017. Following their meeting, the delegation was honored at a felicitation ceremony […]

The case of ‘authoritarian learning’ in Nicaragua

BY RYAN C. BERG Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President and First Lady Rosario Murillo are on the offensive again. The latest move in their dictatorial rule is a draconian law aimed at non-profit organizations and foreign media outlets. The law would establish a national registry and force organizations and media […]

Border communities push back against North Carolinian nominee for US Ambassadorship to Canada

A full third of the Canadian Parliament resides within a two-hour drive of Buffalo, NY. Why then, many Buffalonians have been wondering, did President Donald J. Trump nominate a retired physician from North Carolina as the United States Ambassador to Canada, when the role would be so much more meaningful […]