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Iranian demonstrators burn British and U.S. flags during a protest against the U.S. and British military strike against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 12, 2024.

Elizabeth Shackelford: Iran is at the tipping point. Will the US exercise its political will with Israel?

January 26, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The latest war between Israel and Hamas is the biggest conflagration in the Middle East today, but sparks and fires are emerging across the region. Each provides ample opportunity to...

A ship transits the Suez Canal toward the Red Sea on Jan. 10, 2024, in Ismailia, Egypt. In response to Israel's war with Hamas, Houthi rebels in Yemen pledged disruption on all ships destined for Israel through the Suez Canal.

Elizabeth Shackelford: Chained to Israel, the US struggles to secure vital shipping lanes in the Red Sea

January 12, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

From our nation's earliest days, making the world safe for American commerce has been the foundation of our foreign policy. The first Barbary War at the start of the 19th...

Taylor Swift performs during an Eras Tour concert on Aug. 7, 2023, at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Shackelford: For a better foreign policy in 2024, let’s be more like Taylor Swift

December 31, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

"My team is losing, battered and bruising./ I see the high-fives between the bad guys." Taylor Swift's "Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince" song is a critique of America's domestic...

Hunter Backlund holds his niece, Rebecca Backlund, while walking through floodwaters with his sister, Rachel Backlund at his Christmas tree farm on Dec. 6, 2023 near Silvana, Washington. Atmospheric river conditions in the region brought heavy rains and flooding.

Elizabeth Shackelford: COP28’s climate success isn’t nearly enough

December 28, 2023 at 9:24 a.m.

As the 28th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, known by its acronym COP28, wrapped up Wednesday, diplomats and activists rejoiced. In a historic first, nearly 200 countries signed an...

A religious service is held at Ukraine's Holodomor monument on Holodomor Remembrance Day in Kyiv on Nov. 25, 2023. The memorial commemorates the intentional campaign of starvation waged against Ukrainians by Soviet authorities in 1932-33, which killed millions of people.

Elizabeth Shackelford: Ukrainians won’t submit to Russian rule. The horrors of the Holodomor help explain why.

December 1, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

The last Saturday in November this year marked Holodomor Memorial Day, the 90th anniversary of the Great Famine when Soviet leader Josef Stalin's autocratic regime ruthlessly starved 4 million Ukrainians...

Israeli security forces surround the area of a Palestinian home, believed to belong to one of the gunmen that attacked an Israel checkpoint on the edge of Jerusalem earlier in the day, during a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Nov. 16, 2023.

Elizabeth Shackelford: The US should use its leverage with Israel to help minimize civilian harm in the war

November 17, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

We cannot ignore the mounting civilian death toll in Gaza. The victims are not abstractions, nor are they the inevitable collateral damage of a just war. They are the result...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, speaks to reporters following a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., second from left, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., second from right, and a bipartisan group of senators in the Old Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 21, 2023, in Washington.

Elizabeth Shackelford: What Americans think about the US role in the world and why it matters

November 3, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

For nearly 50 years, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs has been tracking American public opinion on U.S. foreign policy through its annual survey. It began at the behest of...

Palestinians crowding in to buy bread from a bakery, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Oct, 15, 2023. Israel has cut off the flow of food to Gaza after a Hamas attack last week killed 1,300 people and Israel's retaliatory strikes killed more than 2,300 Palestinians.

Elizabeth Shackelford: The fate of the Palestinian people will affect Israel’s future security

October 19, 2023 at 3:20 p.m.

Hamas' attacks on innocent civilians in Israel on Oct. 7 were heinous, cruel and unforgivable. No understanding or empathy is owed to its militants. But the Palestinian people, half of...

The U.S. Capitol in Washington is seen on Sept. 30, 2023. House Republican leaders scrambled recently to push through a last-ditch proposal to avoid a disruptive shutdown, springing on lawmakers a new plan to keep government funding flowing for 45 days just hours before funding for federal agencies would have lapsed.

Elizabeth Shackelford: America’s political dysfunction is harming our reputation and national security

October 6, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

America's national security depends heavily on the strength and effectiveness of our foreign policy and defense. Both are suffering self-inflicted wounds caused by our dysfunctional politics. As our political representatives...

Chinese President Xi Jinping, top right, walks past Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, seated right, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, second from right, during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Aug. 24, 2023.

Elizabeth Shackelford: BRICS has invited 6 countries to join. What does this mean for the US and its allies?

September 8, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

BRICS held its annual leaders summit last month, and it was the most newsworthy event in the bloc's 14 years. What began as an acronym coined two decades ago by...

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