by Kurt Hackbarth | May 22, 2026 | Bay of Pigs, cuba, Foreign Policy, Havana, Latin America, News Analysis, oil blockade, Sanctions, Trump Administration
For a Caribbean city known for its effervescent, out-of-doors culture, Havana has relatively few cars on its streets, not many people on its sidewalks, and a handful of places open for patrons. Life at midweek feels like a Sunday or a holiday. The background noise of competing internal-combustion engines, common to every modern city, has been replaced by the discrete whir of electric vehicles.
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by Chris Walker | Feb 23, 2026 | Donald Trump, Economy, Foreign Policy, immigration, News, Polls, State of the Union
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump is slated to deliver a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, in which he’s expected to give himself and his administration glowing praise, particularly on the economy, immigration enforcement, and foreign policy. Viewers at home will largely disagree with his rosy assessments. Multiple polls in recent weeks demonstrate that…
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by Chris Walker | Jan 20, 2026 | Donald Trump, Economy, Foreign Policy, immigration, Inflation, News, Polls
Polling data from multiple sources shows that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s performance in the first year of his return to the White House, with one poll demonstrating that nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe Trump’s second term is already a failure. A CNN/SSRS poll published on Friday shows that Trump’s approval rating was at a net -22 points…
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by C.J. Polychroniou | Dec 11, 2025 | China, Donald Trump, Europe, far right, Fascism, Foreign Policy, immigration, Imperialism, National Security Strategy, Op-Ed, Trump Administration, US foreign policy
Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, which formalizes the ideological shift that U.S. foreign policy has taken under Trump 2.0, has won praise in Moscow but stunned European allies. Indeed, the strategy document, which was published on December 4, 2025, sent political shock waves through the whole of Europe as European leaders and political analysts grasped how Trump’s radical…
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