Despite lowering the anticipated “Red Wave” to a mere trickle in the midterms last week, he’s running. Despite an upcoming Georgia Senate runoff that hangs in the balance, Mr. Trump is actually running. Trouble is brewing within the GOP itself. Trump might be too toxic to win a general election himself now, but without his voters, no Republican stands a chance in 2024. His presence threatens a crack in the republican party whereby a bunch of Republican voters who are needed to win in a general election take their ball and go home if Trump isn't the guy. So the problem the Republicans face is t ..read more

Today, US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping are having their first face-to-face meeting since Joe Biden was elected in 2020. Since they last met in 2011, when both were vice presidents, tensions between Washington and Beijing have only escalated. Stabilizing the world’s most important bilateral relationship is essential to China, the US, and the rest of the world. Checks and balances limit Biden's executive powers to deal with Xi’s China. The same can't be said for President Xi ..read more

Midterm elections are always a referendum on incumbency, as demonstrated by the fact that the party in control of the White House has lost Congressional seats in 36 out of 39 midterm races since the Civil War. It’s nearly impossible to satisfy voters – particularly those caught in a painful spiral of inflation and recession worries – by advocating for the status quo. That’s the challenge for Democrats: trying to defend their own track record while simultaneously recognizing what remains to be done.  Economic turmoil has forever been a toxic agent that gives the underdog (Republicans in th ..read more

Let's start the week with three questions.   Will US Voters show up on Tuesday? Will wealthy countries compensate or pay poor ones for climate change? What is going on with Elon Musk and Twitter? Most Americans already have firm views of the Republican and Democratic parties, and their midterm votes have been set in stone for some time. In close races, however, the difference will be decided by whether the politically indifferent demographic chooses to vote.  On COP27, rising inflation has forced governments to cut back on fossil fuels, making the International Energy Agency optimist ..read more

Donal Trump continues to be a powerful political force. Even in defeat, he won 74 million votes for president last year, the second-highest total of any candidate in US history.  In this episode, I discuss the future of the GOP.  What does this mean for the party? The GOP has plunged into an all-out civil war that will rage for years to come.   ..read more

The US president's priorities may be COVID, economic recovery, climate change, and China, but the Middle East problems are still following him — and the US is deeply involved in the region, whether President Biden likes it or not. In this episode, I discuss Biden's priorities in the Middle East ..read more

Lots of news coming out of Russia these days... But just who is Alexei Navalny, and how important is the threat that he may pose to Vladimir Putin's power in Russia?  In this episode of RoozCast I discuss the story of Alexei Navalny in Today's Russia ..read more

What should Europe do with Washington and Beijing? Double down on strengthening traditional transatlantic relations in hopes of containing China's growing power to set new trade and technology rules, and to bolster support for "Western values" of human rights and individual liberty Engage both newly dysfunctional Washington and ever-more-assertive Beijing? Strengthen Europe's strategic independence from the US and China?  In this episode of RoozCast, I discuss Europe's big political decision ..read more

The United States has vaccinated approximately  3% of its total population, while the UK is nearing a solid 5 percent vaccination rate. In Israel, which has been recognized as a vaccine success story, almost 24% of people have already received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine.  But while many countries are able to glimpse the outlines of a post-COVID world, there is a huge group of people who are being left out entirely. Refugees, as well as displaced, undocumented, and stateless people around the world, remain unavailable for vaccinations. In this episode, I look at several case ..read more

In this episode, I discuss Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy in the context of trade, conflicts, and international treaties.   Has the president delivered?   ..read more