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Aslı Bâli is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at the UCLA School of Law.
The COVID-19 crisis presents a unique and urgent opportunity to rebalance power away from executives and back to legislatures.
In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.
With Assad preparing a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold, the United States must offer a path forward.
As the Trump–Putin summit made clear, U.S. policy in Syria has always been about grand strategy—never about what would actually help the people on the ground.
Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?
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