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
- • May 24, 2019
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Sure, you could check out The Pho 5 for its oversized bowls of beefy pho, its slurpable vermicelli and its tempting summer and spring rolls. But don’t snub the tacos. As slick nouvelle-Vietnamese cooking is trending, The Pho 5…
- Categories: UN EATS
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • April 17, 2019
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In case you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s not really “America First.” It’s “Donald Trump First.” Life would no doubt be safer for the rest of us if his administration based its foreign policy on something larger than…
- Categories: OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 12, 2019
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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…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 5, 2019
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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…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • February 14, 2019
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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:…
- Categories: UN EATS
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- Irwin Arieff
- • January 30, 2019
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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…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • January 16, 2019
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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 —…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • December 9, 2018
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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”…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • November 24, 2018
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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…
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- Dulcie Leimbach and Irwin Arieff
- • November 2, 2018
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President Trump has apparently offered Heather Nauert the United States ambassadorship to the United Nations, according to numerous media reports. She would succeed Nikki Haley, who announced her resignation in early October, saying she wanted to work in the…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • November 1, 2018
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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…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • October 10, 2018
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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…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • September 29, 2018
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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…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • September 12, 2018
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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…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • August 26, 2018
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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…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch
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