The Trump-Zelensky meetings offered a show of Western unity
Europe’s leaders avoided any hint of disappointment or cleavages within the alliance
American foreign policy
Tuesday
Monday
Has Putin turned Trump into a Russia hawk?
The hawks in Washington are jubilant, the MAGA restrainers, as they refer to themselves, aghast
Saturday
Is Trump ready to fight a forever war?
The President is going into this battle alone
Monday
Trump: America First, c’est moi
All the thumb-sucking over Trump’s foreign-policy doctrine over the past near-decade was just a waste of time
Friday
Trump has been outmaneuvered by Netanyahu
Iran may well seek to trigger a wider war that enmeshes America
Thursday
Trump’s birthday surprise – war with Iran?
US-Iran negotiations appear to have broken down in recent days
Tuesday
A fireside chat with Usha Vance
The Second Lady discussed reading, the Special Olympics and US-India relations
Will Iran take the nuclear win?
The US has moderated its demands
America no longer knows how to fight a war
At home and abroad, the question is no longer ‘which system is best?’ but ‘whose land is this?’
Tuesday
Why Washington should make Latin America a priority
Beijing isn’t just talking
Wednesday
Why Trump met Syria’s interim president
Ahmed al-Sharaa is the former al-Qaeda and ISIS firebrand turned interim leader of Syria
Tuesday
Trump has no appetite for a second-term war
In Riyadh he channeled his inner Lord Palmerston
Wednesday
J.D. Vance makes nice with Munich
Is it possible Trump – and by extension, Vance – are truly taking a harder line on Russia?
Biden has learned nothing from his foreign-policy experience
A perfect peace accord where the Ukrainians get everything and the Russians get nothing is a figment of the imagination
Tuesday
The real battle for Europe
For the whole of its political history, the EU has been in harmony with the Democratic party
Tuesday
A mammoth 100 days of Trump’s America First foreign policy
It’s clear his promise to restore American strength may be even harder than his supporters imagined
Trump is a Large Hadron Collider
The next 1,361 days (or more) will be as wild as the past 100
Who cares about globalization?
Not even Trump’s opponents defend the global economic order
Wednesday
The Democratic war machine
What’s significant for the American left today is not what keeps communism going, but what gets it started
Play Putin at his own game by ‘nightmaring’ his world order
Moscow yearns to carve up the world. But it will be a world where everybody’s knives come out