U.N. ambassador leaves her post just before the president’s smash-and-grab policies will take effect.
Markos Kounalakis
Kounalakis, the Monthly's publisher and president emeritus, is California’s Second Gentleman and a Hoover Institution visiting fellow researching democracy and geopolitics. Follow him on Instagram, @markoskounalakis.
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Trump’s Risky Strategy Toward Iran
The president is playing a high-stakes game of diplomatic chicken. If he miscalculates, it can lead to deadly consequences.
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As the two Koreas affirm binding ties, world powers are forced to come along for the ride.
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America’s longest-running war is a lost cause. The Trump administration should get us out of it.
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David Duke and Richard Spencer may be banned from dozens of European countries, but their virulent ideas are being embraced by a growing fringe.
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Russia’s New Highly-Effective Weapons of Mass Disruption
Oil and gas keep the country afloat while it seeks to undermine American democracy by sowing discord and division.
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John McCain and the American Century Struggle to Survive
The ailing senator is the last of a generation of Republicans who promoted American global leadership.
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Cut the Charade and Crown the President
A malleable Congress and a quiescent Supreme Court have now fully abdicated their roles as a check on presidential power.
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Trump’s Refugee Policies Are Disturbing and Inhumane. China’s Are Even Worse.
China is ignoring the scads of international migrants seeking safe-harbor and survival.
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The Monthly Interview
n 1971, Philip Zimbardo, then a professor of psychology at Stanford University, devised one of the most famous psychological experiments of the twentieth century. In what is known as the Stanford Prison Experiment, he assigned twenty-four young men roles as prisoners and guards, and observed the group dynamics that ensued. To his horror, the study […]
