US president Donald Trump’s isolationist speech at the UN general assembly yesterday has created what marketing types would call a positioning opportunity in the geopolitical…
DREAMING BIG
Apple CEO Tim Cook lambasted Trump over DACA and suggested his own radical immigration policy
Apple CEO Tim Cook hasn’t been shy about his support for DACA, the federal program, now under threat by the Trump administration, to legalize immigrants…
COALITION OF THE UNWILLING
The UN is launching an unprecedented ban on nuclear weapons today, but there’s a catch
Two-thirds of the world is hoping to take a big step towards ridding the planet of nuclear weapons during this week’s UN General Assembly. In…
LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, PUBLICITÉ
Macron’s speech at the UN was the opposite of Trump’s in almost every way
French president Emmanuel Macron may have buddied up with America’s Donald Trump for Bastille Day in July (paywall). But at the UN general assembly today,…
US VS. THEM
Trump mentioned sovereignty 21 times in a speech heralding a new American worldview
“Our success depends on a coalition of strong and independent nations that embrace their sovereignty, to promote security, prosperity, and peace, for themselves and for…
NONALIGNMENT
UN secretary general Guterres welcomed Trump with a bunch of thinly veiled jibes
New UN secretary general António Guterres’ first General Assembly speech resembled some tentative steps in a dance with the event’s headline attendee, Donald Trump. The…
PROTOCOL RULES
Why Brazil speaks first, and all your other questions on the UN General Assembly
OK, so why does Brazil speak first? Brazil doesn’t seem the most logical country to open the five-day-long “general debate” at the United Nations General…
SEE YOU IN NEW YORK
The essential guide to the key issues at the 2017 United Nations Global Assembly
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) runs from Sept. 12-29, but this week is when the key events kick off. The centerpiece of the gathering of…
HAPPY!
Trump has spoken at the “sad!” UN for the first time—and managed not to badmouth it once
The United Nations’ collected diplomats and bureaucrats just breathed a sigh of relief. The week leading up to US president Donald Trump’s first appearance at…
HALEY TO THE CHIEF
How Nikki Haley defied the skeptics, sidestepped Trump, and won the heart of the UN
When asked last November to opine on rumors that then-South Carolina governor Nikki Haley was in line to be secretary of State, foreign policy sage…
UNDIVIDED ATTENTION
The American left has its own Tea Party, and it’s coming for Donald Trump
Tom MacArthur’s town-hall meeting should have been uneventful. It was May and MacArthur, a Republican congressman, had come home to New Jersey to talk to…
FLEXING MUSCLES
Russia’s huge war game is really a mind game against the West, and it’s working
Today (Sept. 14), three new countries were born: Veishnoria, Vesbaria, and Lubenia. They will be short-lived, winking out of existence just six days later. They…
