AboutArticles by Trudy Rubin

The kingmaker was a Palestinian citizen of Israel

06 Jun 2021

Something momentous happened in Israel on Wednesday that could have a major impact on Jewish-Arab relations. I don’t just mean the ousting of the far right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

Don’t give up on us: Afghan girls and women in grave danger when US troops leave

29 May 2021

“Don’t abandon us!” That’s the message I’m getting from brave, educated Afghan women — as the Pentagon advances the date for the final troop withdrawal from Afghanistan to mid-July. There...

Alaska exchange exposes cracks in US-China ties

24 Mar 2021

The ugly verbal spat between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and top Chinese officials who met last Thursday in Anchorage, Alaska, laid bare the future of US-China relations. Most astonishing...

Biden’s China plan faces biggest threat from GOP leaders

06 Feb 2021

President Joe Biden went to the State Department on Thursday to reaffirm his commitment to diplomacy and US alliances, after a Trump presidency that disdained both and gutted the...

Navalny’s bravery has a message for GOP

20 Jan 2021

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading fighter for democracy, returned home this week, after recuperating in Germany from a Kremlin attempt to murder him by poison as he campaigned in Siberia. It...

Trump’s move of replacing Ginsburg should elicit praise from his autocrat buddies

23 Sep 2020

When Mitch McConnell blocked President Barack Obama’s choice to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in March 2016, he claimed he wanted to “let the American people decide” in November elections...

White House war on science undermines trust in COVID-19 vaccine and America’s reputation worldwide

19 Sep 2020

Late in the fourth year of the Trump presidency, the United States is confronting a far more dangerous war than the “forever wars” he says he is ending. This...

Hong Kong crackdown is dangerous for the world

11 Jul 2020

When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong last week, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy activists I’d met there in November. Then I...

President Trump’s love of military undermines democracy

07 Jun 2020

On June 4, 1989, exactly 41 years ago, China’s military shot, killed and arrested thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters came...

A reason why America must stand with Hong Kong against Beijing’s efforts to crush its freedoms

29 May 2020

A major turning point in US-Chinese relations occurred Thursday. It nominally involves the future of Hong Kong, but has major significance for Washington and the wider world. China’s National...

Trudy Rubin

Rubin is a foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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