By Gideon Pardo on Mar 21, 2025 01:00 am Last Tuesday, former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila and taken to the Hague, where he will be tried for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. Read in browser »
By Paul R. Pillar on Mar 21, 2025 12:05 am The resumption of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip and collapse of the ceasefire agreement reached in January were predictable and in fact predicted at that time by Responsible Statecraft. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, driven by personal and domestic political motives, never intended to continue implementation of the agreement through to the declared goal of a permanent ceasefire. Read in browser »
By John Byrnes on Mar 20, 2025 12:05 am On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2003, President Bush issued his final ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. Two nights later, my Iraq War started inauspiciously. I was a college student tending bar in New York City. Someone pointed to the television behind me and said: “It’s begun. They’re bombing Baghdad!” In Iraq it was already early morning of March 20. Read in browser »
By Dan DePetris on Mar 19, 2025 12:05 am For successive U.S. administrations, the big region below the American southern U.S. border was considered a bit of a backwater. Read in browser »
By Maya Krainc on Mar 19, 2025 12:05 am Haiti is sinking deeper into crisis as gangs tighten their stranglehold on the country, now controlling more than 85% of the capital Port-au-Prince. Read in browser »