The Biden Administration Makes a Show Of Being Open
While refusing peace negotiations in Ukraine and punishing Democrats who call for it, the White House wants people to think it’s open to do what it categorically refuses to do.
While refusing peace negotiations in Ukraine and punishing Democrats who call for it, the White House wants people to think it’s open to do what it categorically refuses to do.
Despite the optics and the apparent climbdown by President Joe Biden amidst claims of Saudi resentment and a rupturing US-Saudi partnership, Chatham House’s Neil Quilliam and Azure Security’s Alice Gower argue that the relationship with Saudi Arabia though strained was never at serious risk.
Is Vladimir Putin the face of the future or the final fasp of the past? Will dirty energy and realpolitik come roaring back or will the world adopt a Global Green Deal to combat the climate crisis in a rapidly heating planet?
In his public speaking, Joe Biden has been functioning on autopilot for some time. His rhetorical tics have allowed him to craft his own inimitable version of hyperreality, in which exaggeration has become his core value.
US President Joe Biden has a grand plan to fight inflation. The trouble is that Biden’s plan is not much of a plan and it will certainly not curb price rises not experienced for decades. In fact, the president’s policies have proven to be inflationary and the public has lost confidence in his ability to manage the economy.
Joe Biden’s Green New Deal is dead if it ever was alive, argues Fair Observer's contributing editor Christopher Roper Schell. Read or watch his analysis below.
Joe Biden’s July visit to Saudi Arabia is a stark reminder that while diplomacy is a give and take, memories in the Middle East run painfully deep.
Improving relations with China could lower inflation, isolate Vladimir Putin, and accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.