Commentary

"Once you start down this road, you better know where it's going to end," Ivo Daalder says with Alicia Menendez.

Despite its small size, Qatar has historically played an outsize role in negotiating with organizations or countries that the U.S. doesn’t have relations with.

"Because US support for Ukraine is now squarely associated with Biden as his signature foreign policy achievement to date, it makes it a partisan issue," Paul Poast explains.

Balancing power or increasing risk? Deep Dish explores what a multilateral defense pact for Asia might mean.

In 2022, there were about 170,000 troops stationed outside of the U.S. and its territories, according to the Department of Defense. As of June 2023, there were over 30,000 troops stationed in the Middle East alone, before America expanded its military presence following Hamas' attack on Israel in October. 

Germans used to think Israel was more responsible for the conflict in the Middle East. Now they are more likely to blame Palestinians.

The U.S. and Israel have what has historically been called a “special relationship,” and the U.S. has given more money to Israel than any other country since 1946.

The U.S. is among the top donors to a United Nations agency that runs Palestinian refugee camps.  

But public opinion has likely shifted following Hamas' attacks on Israel.

"A China beginning to lose the underpinnings of its new-found international influence could prove even more dangerous," John Austin writes.