The crisis in Sudan sheds light on the role of U.S. diplomacy. Ambassador David Satterfield, Baker Institute director and former special envoy for the Horn of Africa, says the Biden administration did the best it could. “We tried all the tools available to us that were practicable and legally possible.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has led Turkey for 20 years, but the forthcoming elections present a challenge to his authority that could see Turkey’s voters end his rule. “All scenarios are out on the table as to how this election might go,” fellow A. Kadir Yildirim explains.
Efforts to resolve the U.S.-Mexico border crisis are underway following Title 42's expiration. But sending troops to the border is a strategy that has been critiqued. “It seems they were caught really without a plan,” said Tony Payan, Center for the U.S. & Mexico director.
Bryan Slaton's recent downfall has sparked complications in the Legislature. For true conservatives, fellow Mark P. Jones says "It undercuts everything they’re trying to achieve when someone they thought shared their values betrays those values so openly.”
Xylazine is quickly becoming a threat in the drug crisis, but steps to combat it are already in effect. “The federal government has been much quicker to start worrying about xylazine than they were about fentanyl,” Drug Policy fellow Katharine Neill Harris said.