Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | cfr.org | Diana Roy

    Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a large-scale attack taking aim at Iran’s nuclear facilities, military sites, and top military commanders on Friday, June 13. In a televised address on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the goal was to “roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival” by preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons. He said that the attack would continue “for as many days as it takes” to eliminate the threat.

  • 3 weeks ago | cfr.org | Diana Roy

    International students play a vital role in the U.S. higher education system, with more than one million enrolled during the 2023–24 academic year. They contribute tens of billions of dollars to the economy each year, support job creation, and advance cutting-edge research and innovation efforts.

  • 1 month ago | homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Diana Roy

    BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIPWhat Is Birthright Citizenship and Could the Supreme Court End It? Published 16 May 2025The Trump administration’s efforts to nullify birthright citizenship for millions of U.S.-born children could overturn a nearly 160-year legal precedent. The United States is one of a few dozen countries that guarantees citizenship to any individual born within its territory—a policy that has been in place since Congress ratified the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868.

  • 1 month ago | foreignaffairs.com | Diana Roy |Joshua Kurlantzick |Timothy Naftali |L. Rafael Reif

    In a little more than 100 days, Donald Trump has set about dismantling much of the international order that has prevailed since World War II. That’s true of traditional U.S. approaches to trade, to conflict, alliances, international organizations, and more. But as much as we focus on Trump, Michael Beckley argues that much of this change in U.S. foreign policy has deeper roots, going to the very nature of American power.

  • 1 month ago | cfr.org | Diana Roy

    The United States is one of a few dozen countries that guarantees citizenship to any individual born within its territory—a policy that has been in place since Congress ratified the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868. But efforts to end the practice have increased as critics say it encourages unauthorized migration. On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he issued an executive order seeking to redefine the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.