The survival rate for children with cancer has fallen to 65% from 85% before the U.S. energy restrictions began in January. 100,000 children younger than 7 are no longer receiving the daily liter of milk provided by the state. The immunization program for infants is "at risk" and 100,00 Cubans are on waiting lists for surgery. 300 of 395 essential medicines produced on the island are unavailable due to a lack of chemical components.
Envioscuba.com has stopped taking orders as the Trump administration increases pressure on the Cuban government. The platform allows Cubans living in the U.S. to send money, food, and clothing to relatives on the island. It is no longer accepting new orders, but all those previously approved will be delivered.
James P. Sutton is a Morning Dispatch Reporter based in Washington D.C. He graduated from University of Oxford with a Master’s degree in history. He has also taught high school history in suburban Philadelphia and interned at National Review and the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
As American primacy fades, the U.S. government has embraced the predatory world view of its traditional opponents. Danish soldiers prepared to blow up Greenlandic runways in case of a US invasion. Greenland is the largest island in the world, but it has fewer than fifty-seven thousand residents. Although it belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark, it lies to the west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is part of North America.
The current crisis between Europe and the United States marks the end of an era. The trans-Atlantic bond rested on specific features at the global level and within the U.S. and Europe. It was an order in which laws and norms were often violated, including by the US as well as Europe. The United States is no longer a leviathan or a liberal one, but a predatory power.
The unclear Lebanon file in the U.S.-Iran deal leaves hundreds of thousands of civilians waiting to return to their homes. Lebanon's collapsing economy cannot withstand another period of instability. There are still many unanswered questions in the deal. Â Ă‚
If the U.S. and Iran could end their war, it would be good news for the region and for the rest of the world. The details of the agreement that Washington and Tehran were able to reach appear provisional. Key questions still need to be negotiated. If the fighting in Lebanon continues, things could fail there too. There will be no regime change in Tehran.
Foreign Policy's collection of 10 essays looks at the changes in international politics in the last few years. It's a series of obituaries for ideas that have recently been overtaken or obliterated by the chaotic cascade of world events. The collection includes Branko Milanovic’s analysis of how the once ubiquitous pro-market ideology of neoliberalism produced its own demise. Nathalie Tocci argues it's time to move past trans-Atlanticism and Anton Jäger considers whether political parties exist in name only.