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Andreas KluthBloomberg |
Donald Trump’s picks to run the Pentagon and State Department were among the incoming cabinet members making their case to the Senate this week, so...
As world leaders come to grips with the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House, they should weigh immediate but also second-order...
Donald Trump, just weeks from returning to the Oval Office, wants friend and foe to know that he’s wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a...
One of the least bizarre appointments by president-elect Donald Trump is his choice for secretary of state, Marco Rubio. As a senator from Florida...
Here we go again: Donald Trump is preparing to move back into the Oval Office and once more boasting how “unpredictable” he is, convinced that...
Lame-duck President Joe Biden and his successor, Donald Trump, urgently need a theory of mind about Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of the rebel...
What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche’s aphorism has always inspired me as a great life hack for snatching optimism from...
For most of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as German chancellor it was my job as a journalist to observe and analyze her. And although I often...
This week, the usual protagonists once again played their assigned roles in the five-decade stylized drama set in the Taiwan Strait: Taiwan’s...
Kamala Harris is hardly the first politician in history, or in the past three minutes, to sidestep questions she doesn’t want to answer or to...
“I’m a big Lord of the Rings guy,” JD Vance once told a podcaster. The running mate of former and perhaps future president Donald Trump went on...
If ever there was “cause to target Iran’s nuclear facilities, this is it.” That sentiment speaks for much of the pro-Israel American right....
Of course the United States welcomed the killing of Hassan Nasrallah in a massive Israeli airstrike the other day (apparently with ordnance that...
There was something particularly insidious about the pagers and walkie-talkies that exploded in Lebanon the other day, presumably planted by Israel...
The whole world, literally, knows that the United Nations and its Security Council are anachronistic, unfair if not downright rigged, generally...
Say you’re a ruthless narcissist and a natural-born dictator, and you’re reviewing footage of this month’s presidential debate in Philadelphia....
When it comes to Ukraine, none of the three people in or near presidential power in the United States looks convincing right now. That can change...
Because much of what Donald Trump says is unhinged and histrionic, it’s tempting to dismiss all of it as bunk. And yet the former and perhaps...
A sad trend in world affairs, and one that is personal for me, is the growing rift in the Atlantic. I’m not talking about the geological one under...
If you’re not worried about world peace and global order as embodied by the United Nations and other multilateral institutions, you’re not...
“If we are an arrogant nation, they will resent us,” George W. Bush said during a presidential debate in 2000; “if we’re a humble nation, but...
Don’t be so consumed by the race for the White House or by the conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East, the South China Sea and Africa that you...
“Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by...
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler, it’s been said. By that standard, Donald Trump and the Republican convention to...
Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan are coming home, in what is a huge victory for them and their families but also for President Joe Biden. His...
Right after moving into the Oval Office next January, either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump must open a dossier that voters prefer not to...
Metaphors are dangerous things, especially in matters of war and peace. That makes me dread the communique the 32 allies of the North Atlantic...