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Ben RhodesThe Atlantic |
We need leaders who tell us hard truths while insisting that the present state of our politics is not permanent.
At campaign stops, he talks about high gas prices and Trump’s incompetence. But the core of his message is an unflinching disgust for forever war.
The old U.S.-led order is dead; the new one feels unstable and ominous, as if a storm could descend at any moment.
Since its founding in 2002, DHS has evolved into the unaccountable domestic security apparatus we have today, one that views the very people it is...
Trump’s increasing belligerence abroad should raise alarm about more than the fate of Venezuela.
It may be tempting to memory hole what happened in Gaza. That would only compound the mistake of ignoring, or rationalizing, an intolerable reality.
Whether he is negotiating a deal in the Middle East, bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela or deploying troops to American cities, it’s always...
Both the United States and Britain are suffering through crises of identity.
Supported by Guest Essay In the disquieting new film “Eddington,” the director, Ari Aster, captures the American tendency to live obsessively in...
The United States is becoming just another country with a corrupt strongman personalizing and profiting from power.
The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it...