Trump HHS Launches Probe Into 13 States Over Abortion Coverage Mandates

In Red Sea Crisis, Somaliland Seizes Leverage For US Recognition Authored by Dan M. Ford via Responsible Statecraft, The president of Somaliland took advantage of the geopolitical and global economic turmoil caused by the Iran War to visit Washington this week in an effort to advocate for American recognition of Somaliland and for the deepening of economic ties between the two. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, known as Irro, made a public appearance at the Hudson Institute on September 14, where he argued that his country's three-and-a-half decade run as a secure, self-governing...

NATO's Last Stand? Authored by Matthew Andersson via AmericanThinker.com, Critics may be misreading the recent NATO summit.   It looks to them as if the U.S. is unilaterally siding with Europe against Russia.   President Trump is smarter: he knows who has the winning hand, and his direct communications with his peers, Xi and Putin, are not always public.  President Trump's earliest critical instincts toward the EU and NATO still hold. While the U.S. is currently extending them some diplomatic courtesy and limited support, Europe is ultimately surrounded on all sides by powers that make it...

Macron's India Trip Exposes EU Tech Overreach And Policy Failures Submitted by Thomas Kolbe At times, it seems almost absurdly comical when senior European Union officials make conspicuous efforts to court local business on foreign trips. Didactic in tone, nearly arrogant in their demands toward potential trade partners, and buoyed by a taste for moral superiority, the EU takes the global stage. It still attempts to force large parts of the world into Brussels’ doctrinal playbook—as if economic cooperation could be achieved through normative decrees. Meanwhile, its own economic weakness is either overlooked...