Foreign Correspondent: Right-wing populism will make you sick
The world’s worst outbreaks are occurring in nations with authoritarian leaders, like Trump
Foreign Correspondent: The turmoil in Belarus
Belarusian political activists face a difficult situation, caught between a ruthless dictator and a potential Western takeover of their country.
Foreign Correspondent: Trump plays both sides against the middle
Is he a hawk? Is he a peacenik? The president keeps us guessing.
Foreign Correspondent: Inside Biden’s international policy
Last spring, the Biden campaign decided to hit back hard against accusations of being soft on China. So the campaign produced a blistering ad attacking Trump’s failure to confront...
Foreign correspondent: Kamala Harris on war, peace, and the Middle East
Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin hasn’t forgotten a 2017 meeting with members of Senator Kamala Harris’s staff to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Israeli land and sea...
Trump’s desperate, last-ditch effort to hike tensions with Iran
During the past month, Iran has suffered a half-dozen explosions and fires at military and civilian sites. A bomb blew up near the Parchin missile base outside Tehran, Iran’s...
SF joins fight for US-Cuba medical cooperation
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution July 21 calling for the US to cooperate with Cuba in the fight against COVID 19. At a time...
Foreign Correspondent: Russian bounty story falls flat
On June 26, in a major front page story, The New York Times wrote that Russia paid a bounty to the Taliban to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan last...
Foreign correspondent: Libya, the forgotten war
I arrived at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, on assignment for CBS Radio with my paperwork in order. I even had the phone numbers of local immigration officials in...
Foreign Correspondent: Lessons from the Cuban police
A group of muscular cops carrying semi-automatic pistols and batons slowly move through the crowd at the end of an outdoor salsa concert. My friends and I have a...
