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Irwin Arieff

Irwin Arieff is a veteran writer and editor with extensive experience writing about international diplomacy and food, cooking and restaurants. Before leaving daily journalism in 2007, he was a Reuters correspondent for 23 years, serving in senior posts in Washington, Paris and New York as well as at the United Nations. He also wrote restaurant reviews for The Washington Post and Washington City Paper in the 1980s and 1990s with his wife, Deborah Baldwin.

Kelly Knight Craft, Trump’s Pick for UN Envoy, Is Knee-Deep in Coal, So Is That a Problem?

March 12, 2019 
by Irwin Arieff
It’s easy to figure out why Donald Trump picked Kelly Knight Craft to be his ambassador to the United Nations. She and her husband, Joseph Craft III, a billionaire coal baron, showered the president and his Republican Party with millions in campaign contributions in 2016. (A business consultant before she became a diplomat, she’s …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Nikki Haley Revs Up: ‘We’re in the Money’

March 5, 2019 
by Irwin Arieff
Nikki Haley at Boeing Plant in South Carolina, May 2013
Two months after leaving the United Nations, Nikki Haley has assembled a political network that is laying the groundwork for a possible presidential run in 2024, or even in 2020 — should her mentor Donald Trump not run. The best thing about it from her point of view? The scheme will enable her to …

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UN Reminds Pompeo That It’s Sometimes Hard to ‘Pick a Side’

January 30, 2019 
by Irwin Arieff
When Secretary of State Michael Pompeo talks about global challenges, he insists that Donald Trump is doing a bang-up job steering the international community down the right path. He sees Trump’s America First mantra not as a retreat from the international stage or a slur on other nations’ ideas of leadership but as a …

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UN EATS

Little Tong Noodle Shop, Packing the Heat and the Crowds

February 14, 2019 
by Irwin Arieff
Little Tong Noodle Shop
Little Tong wants you to fall in love with its rice noodles, known as mixian in Yunnan province, their place of origin. But don’t ignore the big draw at this diminutive Turtle Bay restaurant — as if you could: incendiary spice blends that make your mouth sting and eyes tear up the moment you …

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Master of Science in Humanitarian Studies at Fordham University
NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Off the Merry-Go-Round but Still Reaching for the Brass Ring?

January 16, 2019 
by Irwin Arieff
Nikki Haley is wasting no time revealing what her new act will look like now that she has ended her two-year gig toiling on behalf of Donald Trump at the United Nations. Hint: It looks about the same — only more so. Haley appears intent on continuing to build up her image as a …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

‘Welcome to Turtle Bay’: Nikki Haley’s (Imagined) Letter to Heather Nauert

December 9, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
Dear Heather, I was moved to learn of that sweet letter that George H.W. Bush left for Bill Clinton in an Oval Office desk drawer as he left the White House in January 1993. Poppy wished him “great happiness” in the new job and advised him not to “let the critics discourage you or …

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Lessons in Making a Difference for Girls in Burkina Faso

November 24, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
Fred Eckhard charity Burkina Faso
So many nonprofits seem to be after your money these days. Even if you are eager to give it away, you want to be convinced that a given group is the most deserving. But how can you tell when a charitable group is effective, making the best use of your donation without wasting it …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Ambassador Haley Revises History With a Racist, Anti-Semitic Slant

November 1, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
Nikki Haley has raised a surprise question as she heads for the door: How low can she go? Haley appeared to be trying hard to take the high road when she announced on Oct. 9 that she would be stepping down by the end of the year as the American ambassador to the United …

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Master of Science in Humanitarian Studies at Fordham University
NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Ambassador Haley Goes Out With a Hug

October 10, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
So it’s happened again. Big deal. A top Trump administration official has jumped ship, one of dozens to do so less than two years into the president’s term. But this time was definitely different. When Nikki Haley announced she was stepping down, she did so from the Oval Office in a joint appearance with …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

By Damning Iran, Ambassador Haley Ignores Israel’s Sins

September 29, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
O.K., let’s be honest here. Iran is a bad actor, just as Donald Trump says. While, to its credit, Iran has put its nuclear weapons program on ice — through an international agreement still supported by just about everyone in the world but Trump — it also regularly threatens Israel and the United States, stokes regional conflicts, …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Ambassador Haley’s Delusions of Grandeur

September 12, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
There’s a rumor going around that Donald Trump is a master diplomat, a whiz at foreign affairs whose America First policies have taken the world by storm and won widespread admiration for his leadership skills. Check out the recent New York Post column by a Fox News analyst, Ralph Peters, claiming that the president’s foreign policy …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Michael Haley’s Real Estate Deal With Family Property

August 26, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
Nikki Haley’s husband, Michael, sold a family property in Lexington, S.C., to a local investment firm in January 2018, removing a major liability from the family’s balance sheets while also earning a profit, at least on paper, state and federal documents show. Only five months earlier, the property, a small strip mall on Sunset Boulevard that …

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Master of Science in Humanitarian Studies at Fordham University
NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Nikki Haley, Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt

August 6, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
It can be upsetting to see government officials, as they so often do, report vast new wealth on their annual financial disclosure forms shortly after taking a new government job. What enabled them to take in all that money just after starting a new career? Well, we can relax as far as Nikki Haley, …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

No Winners in Washington’s Human-Rights Blame Game

July 3, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
It’s a poor workman who blames his tools, a popular French proverb cautions. But that’s just what Ambassador Nikki Haley has been doing in trying to justify Washington’s exit from the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council. Haley has looked long and hard in her scramble to identify the villains responsible for Washington’s exit. …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Nikki Haley’s Twists and Turns, Leading Down a Path to Nowhere

May 13, 2018 
by Irwin Arieff
Nikki Haley is the most popular member of Donald Trump’s national security team, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, which found that 63 percent of voters approve of the job she is doing as United States ambassador to the United Nations. Just 17 percent disapprove. (Only 39 percent approved of Trump’s performance, the …

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