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 (where he covered five of the 10 years that Sergey Lavrov spent in New York as Russia's senior UN ambassador). Arieff also wrote restaurant reviews for The Washington Post and Washington City Paper in the 1980s and 1990s with his wife, Deborah Baldwin.
- Irwin Arieff
- • June 29, 2020
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I never thought I would ever feel sorry for Nikki Haley. But John Bolton, in his infamous new book, “The Room Where It Happened,” is so unrelenting in his snide comments about Haley, President Trump’s first ambassador to the…
- Categories: BOOKS, US Foreign Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • May 15, 2020
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A year ago, Kelly Craft was serving as Washington’s frequently absent ambassador to Canada, soon to be en route to the United Nations. Her spouse, the coal baron Joseph Craft III, was knee-deep in a Trump administration assault on…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • May 1, 2020
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Just how crazy is Donald Trump’s campaign to punish the World Health Organization over its apparent “China-centric” bias in the midst of a deadly pandemic? Let us count the ways. At the top of the list: It may contribute…
- Categories: Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • April 17, 2020
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What a difference a few weeks can make. At the end of March, Kelly Craft, President Trump’s top ambassador at the United Nations, insisted that midbattle against a dread disease sweeping the globe was no time for an international…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • April 4, 2020
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President Trump and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo love to label Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus” or “Wuhan virus.” But Kelly Craft, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, is calling on Washington to work hand in hand…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • February 26, 2020
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Kelly Craft has taken a big step toward helping to ensure her political future, lavishing a campaign contribution of $360,600 on the re-election of her boss, President Donald Trump. The gift is the first that Craft, the United States…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • February 3, 2020
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When is a peace plan not a peace plan? Look no further than Donald Trump’s cynically timed initiative to end the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. If a breakthrough does result, it will be in spite of itself….
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • January 13, 2020
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Donald Trump may have dodged the big one in the Middle East for now. But recent events make clear that the president and his tragic idea of leadership may yet drag the United States into a major war with…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff and Deborah Baldwin
- • November 21, 2019
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Second Avenue near the United Nations is not exactly expense-account row, which makes Château 49 something of an anomaly, in more ways than one. There aren’t many spots in this area where you can order two glasses of red…
- Categories: UN EATS
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- Irwin Arieff
- • November 19, 2019
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“With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace,” is framed as a look back at Nikki Haley’s two years as United States ambassador to the United Nations. It’s also not unreasonable to assume she’s just ticking off…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • October 14, 2019
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In early 1974, fresh out of journalism school, I walked into the offices of the newly created Federal Energy Office in Washington and asked for a job. Within days I was back — a freshly minted writer-editor in the…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • August 26, 2019
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Donald Trump must have known just what he was getting into when he named Kelly Knight Craft to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. But does Knight Craft understand the humiliating position the president is putting…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Irwin Arieff
- • July 31, 2019
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The Senate has confirmed Kelly Knight Craft to be Washington’s top ambassador to the United Nations, even as a key Democrat pronounced her “unfit to serve.” The move ends a seven-month vacancy in one of the country’s most senior…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • July 11, 2019
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Six years ago, hungry staff members at the United Nations’ New York headquarters thought big changes were afoot in the cafeteria, and not a moment too soon. Toward the end, the provider, Aramark, a publicly traded firm best known…
- Categories: UN EATS
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- Irwin Arieff
- • June 19, 2019
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Kelly Knight Craft, Donald Trump’s pick to be the next United States ambassador to the United Nations, raised eyebrows in her June 19 Senate confirmation hearing by putting some space between her views on global climate change and those…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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