From Trip the Beltway Fantastic: The war in Gaza continues today with scores of Palestinians dead, mostly from airstrikes on shelters and schools and neighborhoods outside hospitals. The displaced have nowhere else to go. In the meantime, the Israeli military has...
Livestreamed Conference by the Quincy Institute/American Conservative May 23: Rand Paul, JD Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy on Realism and Restraint Amid Global Conflict
Join us in person or livestreamed on May 23 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building, located at 120 Constitution Avenue NE in Washington, DC. Lunch and refreshments will be served. REGISTER TODAY to attend the conference or to join...
On This Iraq Anniversary, Recalling the Shame of the ‘Free Press’
With such powerful forces determined to use 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein for good, the American people really didn’t have a chance in proverbial hell to stop it. As Woodrow Wilson knew with the U.S. entry into WWI, the media must...
Jack Matlock on Escalating War: ‘It’s Hard To See How We Get Out of This’
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft with permission.Jack Matlock Jr., who was a young U.S. foreign service officer stationed in Moscow during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then ambassador there 20 years later under the Reagan Administration, joined a seasoned panel...
Chas Freeman on Nixon, China, and ‘The Week That Changed the World’
From The Quincy Institute/Responsible Statecraft: The tension and curiosity was palpable here in America when President Richard Nixon touched down in China with an entourage of government officials and press on February 21, 1972. The reason was clear: the country had...
Anatol Lieven: Freeze NATO Expansion Now or Risk War (VIDEO)
From Responsible Statecraft. The Russians want NATO to close its doors to Ukraine and all further expansion into Eastern Europe — this is the red line Moscow as declared. Quincy Institute senior fellow Anatol Lieven talks here about why the U.S. and NATO must decide...
Bi-Partisan Coalition Urges Biden To Resist Calls for Military Action Against Russia
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.A coalition of both conservative and progressive foreign policy organizations have delivered a letter to the White House, asking the president to pursue a broad diplomatic path with the Russians...
Loosened Rules on Drone Strikes Recall Vietnam ‘Body Counts’ (video)
From Responsible Statecraft: Investigative journalist, author, and Iraq veteran Jack Murphy sat down with the Quincy Institute’s Adam Weinstein to talk about U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan, and how loosened rules of engagement led to an accelerated number of...
RIP: Mark Perry, an Extraordinary Journalist in Extraordinary Times
Our colleague and friend Mark Perry passed away today after a battle with lung cancer, his son Cal Perry announced on Twitter earlier this morning. It is devastating news to so many because Perry had been a staple in Washington foreign policy/military journalism and...
Panel: What’s a State-Sponsored Assassination Between Friends? Reckoning With the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (video)
On the eve of the second anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, QI and Showtime Documentary Films hosted a discussion about the implications of the assassination for U.S.-Saudi relations past, present, and future. The discussion also offered a sneak peak at...
