Biden embraces his inner realist
Rather than conveying weakness, Biden projected resolve
American foreign policy
Monday
The American epoch of failure
A lost war does less damage to a country like the United States than a war that cannot be won
Sunday
Wrong then, wrong now — Joe Biden’s maddeningly inconsistent foreign policy
Joe Biden’s public pronouncements on Afghanistan neatly signal the folly of American leadership in the last two decades
Autopsy of a failed war
Our longest war ends in another abject failure
Thursday
Why progressives have no sense of proportion
Why does the Biden administration have harsher words for Ron DeSantis than for the Taliban?
Thursday
Will America rescue the mullahs?
The nuclear deal and the next Iranian uprising
Thursday
A DC evening with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
The Belarusian opposition leader is Washington’s ‘It Girl’
Thursday
Glenn Greenwald: America First conservatives shouldn’t support unrest in Cuba
‘The US government, when it intervenes, brings instability, not stability’
Monday
We must help the Afghan interpreters
Our obligations in these cases are significant: a debt of honor and also a matter of national security
Thursday
What does Vladimir Putin have on Joe Biden?
Biden is refusing to act as Russian attacks become more ambitious and more aggressive
Tuesday
Can the US redeem itself in Afghanistan?
The US engaged in ‘nation-building’ for the wrong reasons — and has seen bad results
Sunday
We are all Donald Rumsfeld
The late defense secretary is a scapegoat for the Establishment
Is critical race theory in the US military ‘dangerous’?
GOP House Armed Services Committee members slam Defense Department priorities as China and Russia rise
Wednesday
Donald Rumsfeld succeeded at everything — so why did he fail in the end?
The former defense secretary died aged 88 on Thursday
Friday
Raisi’s election confirms the futility of returning to the Iran Deal
Iran’s president-elect is what Hannah Arendt would have called a schreibtischtäter, a ‘desk murderer’
Friday
America isn’t back. Global grandstanding is
Don’t expect any meaningful solutions to the world’s biggest problems
Wednesday
Can Joe Biden get real about Russia?
US hostility to Putin may be hardwired. But a little American humility could go a long way
Monday
The president of platitudes
Biden’s speeches aren’t disastrous — just listless and flat
Tuesday
Joe Biden’s summer vacation
He’s going for a nice ride across the big, big ocean in a very shiny airplane. Weeee!
Thursday
How are we enjoying the Biden presidency so far?
It’s only mid-May 2021
