Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, The Podcast Interview Mark Leon Goldberg July 15, 2019What made former Ash Carter so unique among his predecessors was that by the time he became the Secretary of Defense in 2015, he'd already spent nearly 30 years working at the Pentagon. This includes stints as ...
A Secretly Filmed Documentary Exposes A Dystopian Nightmare for Uighur Muslims in China Mark Leon Goldberg July 11, 2019Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province of Northwestern China are living in a police state like no other on earth. Using counter-terrorism as a pre-text, Chinese authorities have rounded up over a million Uighu...
The White House Wants To Send Asylum Seekers To Guatemala. This is Probably Illegal Mark Leon Goldberg July 10, 2019This is a guest post from Eric Schwartz, the president of Refugees International. He previously served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration In a particularly egregious ...
Why Municipal Elections in Turkey Have Global Significance Mark Leon Goldberg July 8, 2019When Reccep Tayyep Erdogan's party the AKP won a landslide victory in Turkey's 2002 general elections he became a very different kind of Turkish leader from his predecessors, who were avowedly secular.For a...
What Political Science Can Teach Us About the World Cup and World Peace Mark Leon Goldberg July 3, 2019The US Women's National Soccer Team's run in this year's World Cup is one for the history books.But do sporting events like this contribute to world peace?It turns out that political science has somethi...
The United Nations is at the Center of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Will It Also Be the Site of Its Unraveling? Mark Leon Goldberg July 2, 2019The United Nations is at the center of the Iran Nuclear Deal.It was a series of robust international sanctions passed by the UN Security Council that first brought Iran to the negotiating table. And then, i...
What’s Next Between the United States and Iran? Mark Leon Goldberg July 1, 2019Events are unfolding rapidly between the United States and Iran. At time of recording, it was reported that Trump ordered and then called off a military strike against Iran in retaliation for the downing of a U...
Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher — Podcast Interview Mark Leon Goldberg June 27, 2019Representative Mike Gallagher is a rising star in Republican foreign policy circles. The 35- year-old congressman represents the eighth district of Wisconsin, which includes the city of Green Bay. He was first ...
Can the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Count on US Support in Venezuela? Mark Leon Goldberg June 25, 2019Michele Bachelet just concluded her first-ever official visit to Venezuela as High Commissioner for Human Rights. The former president of Chile spent three days in Venezuela, meeting with government officials, ...
