Frontline U.S. embassy officials are watched, bugged, and intimidated. We shouldn’t let Putin get away with it.
foreign policy
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump’s Outrageous Foreign Policy Views
He’s not even sure if he would come to the defense of our NATO allies.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Obama Rejects the “Carly Simon Syndrome”
Donald Trump thinks President Barack Obama is sympathetic to ISIS. In reality, Obama knows much of the Middle East is outside U.S. control.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, March/April/May 2016, Politics
How Big a Success Is the Democratic Revolution in Burma?
And how much credit should the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton get for making it happen?
Posted inBooks, January/February 2016, Magazine, Politics
The Real Reagan
The Gipper’s actual record diverges significantly from the posthumous conservative mythology about him.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, Politics, September/October 2015
Restoring Henry
Niall Ferguson, Kissinger’s authorized biographer, begins the arduous task of rolling his subject’s fallen reputation back up the hill. The historian Greg Grandin kicks it right back down again.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, September/October 2015
The Sharpest Spear
The extraordinary rise of America’s special operations forces.
Posted inGovernment, June/July/August 2015, Magazine
The Hungary Games
How Hillary Clinton and her diplomats kept authoritarianism at bay in eastern Europe.
Posted inBooks, Government, June/July/August 2015, Magazine
On Not Canonizing the Gipper
Efforts to elevate Ronald Reagan’s reputation to Rooseveltian heights continue. Time to stand athwart historians and yell “Stop!”
