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David IgnatiusWashington Post |
When President Donald Trump delivered his television tirade Thursday night about “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” and a...
Three words of advice for President Donald Trump as he tries to extricate himself from the mess of the Iran war: Just stop talking. Let America’s...
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In 1983, I wrote an article for Foreign Affairs magazine with the comically naive title, “How to Rebuild Lebanon.” The task seemed obvious: The...
Listening to U.S. and Arab negotiators recount inside details of their long, zigzag bargaining with Iran over the past five months, I have the sense...
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“The Acting Director of Political Retribution.” Sadly, that might be the best shorthand title for the official chosen Tuesday to oversee the...
Foreign & Public Diplomacy KYIV—Strange as it sounds, it’s uplifting to visit Ukraine these days. This is a place where the good guys are...
Foreign & Public Diplomacy Think of all the sparring ahead of the second round of U.S.-Iran negotiations as the World Series of Brinkmanship. The...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, always paranoid about enemies, may be feeling cornered this spring. His army is at a standstill in Ukraine, despite...
Foreign & Public Diplomacy “There you have it, the meeting went well,” declared the Great Narrator a few hours after Saturday’s marathon,...
Foreign & Public Diplomacy Diplomats like ambiguity. But as President Donald Trump’s emissaries try to craft a permanent ceasefire agreement in...
“America held hostage!” That grim nightly message from ABC’s Ted Koppel transfixed the nation during the Iran hostage crisis nearly five decades...
When bargaining about war and peace, the strategist Thomas Schelling wrote, you’re more likely to win concessions “if you get a reputation for...
Nobody else will clean up the mess in Iran. That means U.S. President Donald Trump needs to finish the war he started so impulsively—by setting a...
We’ve lifted the paywall. Foreign Policy’s coverage of the Iran war is free to read for a limited time. Maybe the answer to the gut question “So...
A few senior officials in Israel are starting to voice concern about the escalating, open-ended attack on Iran—and suggesting possible exit ramps...
President Donald Trump said about the airstrike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a week ago: “I got him before he got me.” Iran had...
For more than 45 years, U.S. presidents have wanted to destroy the radical, anti-American regime in Tehran. They always concluded that the risks of...
After four years of war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved a double failure: He hasn’t conquered Ukraine, or even its eastern Donbas...