diplomacy

Return to engagement with Cuba
Mar 15, 2021
House Democrats are reportedly pressing President Joe Biden to reverse U.S. policy on Cuba once again, returning to the detente that prevailed before ...
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The US can help save the Amazon
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 01, 2021
In his push to combat climate change, President Joe Biden has vowed to take action to protect the Amazon rainforest. That means getting Brazil’s popul...
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How to end a long war
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2021
On paper, the United States is committed to withdrawing its last 2,500 troops from Afghanistan less than 10 weeks from now, on May 1. That’s under a d...
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Iran’s proxies already moving
Opinion, Сolumns
ELI LAKE, Tribune News Service 
Feb 22, 2021
Since President Joe Biden took office, Iran’s regional proxies have been busy. This month alone, Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed credit for a drone att...
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Brace yourself, America, change is coming
Opinion, Сolumns
CHRIS TALGO, Tribune News Service 
Jan 18, 2021
On Wednesday, the Biden administration will enter the Oval Office in the midst of a pandemic and economic crisis, with the Democrats in control of bot...
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Goodbye to ‘peace through strength’?
Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Dec 03, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden named his national security team last week. Antony Blinken will be nominated for secretary of state; Jake Sullivan for natio...
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Jared Kushner was right
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Sep 21, 2020
Over the past several years, a new certainty was added to death and taxes: Jared Kushner would fail in his role as the administration’s Middle East po...
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The Trump toxicity
Letters to Editor
Jan 14, 2020
It is going to take more than an act of Congress to stop President Donald Trump from doing exactly what he wants to do. He has no respect for the law....
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Sosic’s art selected for embassy
Local News
Marcie 
Dec 21, 2019
Four oil paintings by Samila Sosic, director of study abroad and international services at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, will soon hang in...
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Former President George H.W. Bush dies at age 94
News
MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press 
Dec 01, 2018
HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted ...
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Yes, they’re laughing at us
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 01, 2018
When President Donald Trump was touting the accomplishments of his administration before the United Nations last week, there were some guffaws from th...
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Trump will get deal done with NKorea
Opinion, Сolumns
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to The Era 
May 31, 2018
President Trump’s recent announcement that the upcoming summit with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is cancelled has been seized upon by lefti...
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Hold the Nobel Peace Prize
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
May 04, 2018
Who would have guessed that a Trump crowd 15 months into his presidency would be chanting, "Nobel! Nobel! Nobel!" As in Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inve...
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