Trump Administration Exaggerates Its Powers In Foreign Policy – OpEd
Despicable is the Trump administration’s refusal to ask Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian president of El Salvador, for the return of
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Author: Ivan Eland
Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Dr. Eland is a graduate of Iowa State University and received an M.B.A. in applied economics and Ph.D. in national security policy from George Washington University. He has been Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and he spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He is author of the books Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq, and Recarving Rushmore.
Website: http://www.independent.org/research/copal/
Articles by Ivan Eland :
Trump Can Create A Concert Of Great Powers – OpEd
In President Donald Trump’s first term, he ran a less aggressive foreign policy than he seems to be doing now,
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Trump Needs Real Budget Slashing, Not Musk’s DOGE Smoke And Mirrors – OpEd
Because the United States has a debt of almost $37 trillion, with government interest payments exceeding the massive amount spent on
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Trump Is Well-Positioned To Shake Up The World Balance Of Power – OpEd
One issue that President Trump has been especially well-positioned to make progress on is ending the war between Ukraine and
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Donald Trump’s Tariffs: Bad Economics And Maybe Illegal, Too – OpEd
Amid the flurry of unconstitutional or illegal executive orders from President Donald Trump—for example, the freezing of congressionally approved spending, the end of
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Government Can Be Downsized Without Destroying The Constitution – OpEd
Even a somewhat informed observer might wonder why President Donald Trump and the Republicans, who control all three branches of
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Is Trump Really Going To Practice Military Restraint? – OpEd
The three popular pillars of Donald Trump’s electoral success have been grievances about immigrants, unfair trade practices by other countries,
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Trump Sentencing: Judicial System Again Defers To The Imperial Presidency – OpEd
Republicans used to criticize courts for “legislating from the bench,” and Chief Justice John Roberts claimed at his confirmation hearing
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Reevaluating Jimmy Carter’s Presidency – OpEd
The consensus among historians, journalists, and analysts has long been that President Jimmy Carter’s four-year presidency was a low point
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Political Instability In South Korea Should Lead To Questions About US Troop Deployment – OpEd
In South Korea, only a democracy since 1987, a “reverse January 6” has happened. Instead of storming the legislative building
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