Joe Biden’s grapple with senility is the GOP’s 2024 message
In Hanoi, he asserted American dominance in his typical way: representing the nation as a tired, hollowed-out shell of its former greatness
American foreign policy
Monday
Tuesday
Exclusive: How Covid protocol disrupted the Afghanistan withdrawal
‘One Marine dryly noted, “There were greater threats to life at the airfield than Covid”’
Thursday
Seeking accountability for Afghanistan with the Gold Star families
‘I know if God were to show up that morning and say “thirteen of you,” her hand would have gone up’
Monday
What would Trump’s second-term foreign policy look like?
To the extent the former president has a worldview of his own, it is best understood as a smorgasbord of nationalism and pseudomercantilism
Monday
Biden chickens out on Ukraine and NATO
‘I don’t think Ukraine is ready for NATO’
Friday
Afghan leaders say country is a terror haven
‘Just because Biden left Afghanistan does not mean the terrorists decided to end their war on the West’
Thursday
RFK Jr. is as mad on foreign policy as he is on vaccines
The easiest way to sum up his arguments is that America is to blame for the world’s problems
Thursday
Why Haiti’s humanitarian disaster is a problem for Biden
The Caribbean nation is losing the people necessary for a reconstruction of the state
Friday
John Kirby’s Clean-Up on Aisle Kabul
The Biden administration has been lying about the evacuation from Afghanistan from the day that it began
Wednesday
Biden should butt out of Israeli politics
What good does criticizing Netanyahu’s judicial reforms do for America?
Monday
Washington’s yes-men in Japan
The Japanese establishment cannot understand the world beyond American prerogatives
Friday
One year of war in Ukraine: six experts predict what will happen next
Foreign policy minds reflect on the conflict and its global impact
Tuesday
The virtues of American ‘nation-building’
The US could not have just easily absconded from Afghanistan
Friday
Shoot down the balloon!
Doing nothing about China’s flagrancy would be a grave mistake
Saturday
Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition has faltered
Juan Guaidó was supposed to fight for democracy but much has changed since 2019
Wednesday
Biden needs to stop ceding the initiative to Putin
He may fear escalation, but Russia has escalated despite — or more likely because of — the Biden administration’s caution
Tuesday
Edward Luttwak, the uncontained strategist
He is a product — and the embodiment — of twentieth-century conflict
Sunday
Republican support for Ukraine is fading
The GOP candidates aren’t all sold on more aid
Friday
Why Biden’s attempt to revive the Iran deal is faltering
Washington is quietly giving up hope on the 2015 agreement
Sunday
Welcome to the age of nuclear blackmail
In Taiwan and Ukraine, we are at the start of a perilous new era
