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Speaking Loudly Even While Wielding the Big Stick
The White House situation room, the night before the US-led strike on Syria occurred. Despite the April 13 assault, Nikki Haley warned the UN Security Council the next day that more missiles would be...
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Nikki Haley’s Twists and Turns, Leading Down a Path to Nowhere
Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the UN, meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his Jerusalem office, June 7, 2017. The author writes that Haley has been the biggest cheerleader for the US to...
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An Eloquent Homage to Syria’s Past, in Case It Has No Future
Syrian Navy officers from Qardaha defecting to the Syrian Martyrs’ Brigades, a unit of the Free Syrian Army, in Latakia governorate, 2013. CREATIVE COMMONS As one of the world’s oldest areas of human...
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No Winners in Washington’s Human-Rights Blame Game
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, America’s envoy to the United Nations, announcing the US decision to withdraw from the Human Rights Council, June 19, 2018. Haley, who led the effort...
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Nikki Haley, Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt
President Trump speaking to staff members at the US mission to the UN, with Ambassador Nikki Haley, after the UN General Assembly high-level debate, Sept. 26, 2017. Haley’s newest financial disclosure...
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Michael Haley’s Real Estate Deal Involving Family Property
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, with her husband, Michael Haley, looking out over the South Carolina Statehouse, when she was governor, 2013. Nikki Haley’s husband, Michael, sold a family...
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Ambassador Haley’s Delusions of Grandeur
President Trump, Ambassador Nikki Haley and H.R. McMaster, who was the US national security adviser at the time, Oct. 20, 2017. Haley said she had direct access to the president, but she never revealed...
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By Damning Iran, Ambassador Haley Ignores Israel’s Sins
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Nikki Haley, America’s envoy to the UN. The writer asks, is US policy toward the Israel and Palestine conflict now being driven by the Republicans’ need to please...
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Ambassador Haley Goes Out With a Hug
Nikki Haley, America’s envoy to the United Nations, held the rotating presidency of the Security Council in September. Here, she chairs a Council meeting on the humanitarian status of the war in Syria,...
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Ambassador Haley Revises History With a Racist, Anti-Semitic Slant
President Trump participating in the Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem, Sept. 24, 2018, at the UN in New York. As she heads out the door, Haley still defends the inflammatory remarks and...
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Lessons in Making a Difference for Girls in Burkina Faso
Fred Eckhard, who was UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s spokesman, in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, with girls helped by a charity he runs, Chance for Change, in their last year of secondary school. Half of...
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‘Welcome to Turtle Bay’: Nikki Haley’s (Imagined) Letter to Heather Nauert
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador, flanked by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, addressing the press at UN headquarters in New York, July 20, 2018, after a private meeting with the Security Council on North...
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Off the Merry-Go-Round but Still Reaching for the Brass Ring?
President Trump arriving at the United Nations with Nikki Haley, Sept. 18, 2017. The author describes how Haley, who is no longer US ambassador, is continuing to keep the spotlight on herself through...
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Little Tong Noodle Shop, Packing the Heat and the Crowds
Little Tong Noodle Shop, East 53rd Street, during the fast-moving lunch crunch. The Yunnanese style food includes a spicy, gooey-cheese sandwich nestled in a folded, flakey pancake. IRWIN ARIEFF Little...
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UN Reminds Pompeo That It’s Sometimes Hard to ‘Pick a Side’
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo spoke at a UN Security Council session on Venezuela, Jan. 26, 2019, where he insulted China and Russia, the author writes, in his speech asking all Council members...
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Nikki Haley Revs Up: ‘We’re in the Money’
Nikki Haley, the former US envoy to the UN, has been nominated to join the Boeing board, among other new ventures that could raise a lot of money for a possible presidential run by her. As governor of...
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Kelly Knight Craft, Trump’s Pick for UN Envoy, Is Knee-Deep in Coal, So Is...
Kelly Knight Craft, the US envoy to Canada, has been nominated by President Trump to be the next US representative to the UN. Here, she celebrates the Fourth of July in Ottawa with her husband, Joseph...
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Where Will Trump’s Love for Israel Take Us?
President Trump with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, May 2017. From the start of his presidency, Trump’s Middle East policies have amounted to a “bromance” with the Israeli...
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At The Pho 5, Vietnamese-Style Tacos and Slurpy Noodles
At the Pho 5, which opened in February and is on Third Avenue near 39th Street, the nouvelle Vietnamese food features not only traditional vermicelli but also tacos piled high with goodies. IRWIN...
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Trump’s UN Pick Softens on Climate Change, but Not on Paris Accord
Kelly Knight Craft, shown here as the American ambassador to Canada, is Trump’s nominee for the top envoy role at the United Nations. Her Senate confirmation hearing, held June 19, 2019, for the UN...
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