Allison Lecce

Allison Lecce is from Chappaqua, N.Y., and a student at Fordham University majoring in international studies with a minor in journalism. She received this year's Fordham College Alumni Association Journalism Scholars Award.

Allison Lecce

International Election Monitors Arrive in the US for the Nov. 3 Poll

October 7, 2020

by Allison Lecce

The major international body for monitoring elections, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, has begun observing the lead-up to the United States Nov. 3 general elections. At the invitation of the US State Department, the work of the organization, known as the OSCE, started on Sept. 29 and will operate in just …

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Nikki Haley Didn’t Get on Trump’s Re-Election Ticket, but 2024 Is Around the Bend

August 25, 2020

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

If pundits were to be believed earlier in August, there was a chance for a historic vice-presidential debate in 2020: two women of color facing off for the second-highest position in the United States. The speculation was that Nikki Haley, a former US envoy to the United Nations and a South Carolina governor, would …

Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Coronavirus Soars, Trump Golfs, Pence Falls: Who the Hell Is in Charge of the US?

June 30, 2020

by Barbara Crossette

Deep uncertainty and unease are descending across the United States just as Americans are preparing to celebrate their most important “political” holiday, Independence Day, on July 4. Contrary to what Trump administration officials are proclaiming, the US is not containing the Covid-19 pandemic infection rate, which has suddenly surpassed its April high point, marking …

Covid-19, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Biden’s Toughest Task: Linking Foreign Policy to a Changed America

June 10, 2020

by Barbara Crossette

With Joseph Biden taking an unassailable lead by June 7 as the Democratic Party’s choice for president of the United States, many Americans foresee a desperate, ugly political campaign for re-election by Donald Trump coming. The magnitude of his damage to America’s role in the world will be an issue for Democrats, along with …

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Reading the US Presidential Tea Leaves: Do the Candidates Even Care About the UN?

January 29, 2020

by Jeffrey Laurenti

President Trump was at the United Nations last fall telling world leaders that “the future does not belong to globalists” when Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the United States House of Representatives would launch an inquiry into his possible impeachment. It was the same General Assembly whose derisive laughter at Trump’s boast a year before …

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Allison Lecce

Allison Lecce

International Election Monitors Arrive in the US for the Nov. 3 Poll

Nikki Haley Didn’t Get on Trump’s Re-Election Ticket, but 2024 Is Around the Bend

Coronavirus Soars, Trump Golfs, Pence Falls: Who the Hell Is in Charge of the US?

Biden’s Toughest Task: Linking Foreign Policy to a Changed America

Reading the US Presidential Tea Leaves: Do the Candidates Even Care About the UN?

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