While Ted Cruz has been stonewalling the confirmation of Biden’s State Department nominees for months, it appears he will not do so in the case of R. Nicholas Burns, Biden’s nominee for ambassador to China. Cruz, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations...
On its 20th anniversary, the world will stop and mourn the 2,977 lives lost on September 11, 2021 when the extremist terrorist group Al Qaeda hijacked four planes and conducted suicide attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and a...
A 7.2- magnitude earthquake over the weekend has left over 2,000 Haitians dead and over 12,000 injured in Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti. According to statistics from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team, 83,300 houses have been damaged from the earthquake and...
As President Joe Biden seeks to reinvigorate American foreign policy with diplomacy at its center, one man stands in his way. It’s not Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin, it’s Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been stonewalling...
“We View Our Bodies as a Form of Resistance.” Even as thousands of Houstonians take to the streets in solidarity with Palestine, media coverage is sparse. Around 15,000 Houstonians took to the streets in solidarity with Palestine over the last three weeks. One rally...
Whenever there’s a spike in border crossings, like what’s been seen in recent months, progressives often bring up the idea of a Marshall Plan for Central America. Migrants are fleeing the Northern Triangle (Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala) because of violence and...
Rep. Joaquin Castro announced Wednesday that he would begin investigating potential conflicts of interest and abuse of power by Jared Kushner, senior advisor and son-in-law to President Trump. Castro, the vice-chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and chairman...
Rep. Joaquin Castro and Rep. Eliot Engel are taking issue with trips and speeches from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to various churches and organizations in Texas, Wisconsin and Florida. As the nation’s chief diplomat, Pompeo is eschewing the non-partisan tradition...
On late Tuesday night, Houston first responders were alerted to smoke arising from the Chinese consulate in Houston. Firefighters and police were not allowed onto the premises, which are under Chinese sovereignty. It was later revealed that the United States had...