ISIS is on the decline, but the catastrophic political divisions in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to it are no closer to being mended
Donald Trump and the Fourth Great Shattering
The evidence is in: The “adults in the room” at the White House have enabled Trump’s worst impulses, not checked them
From his feud with Bob Corker to his plans to renege on the Iran deal, Trump’s mood swings mean a dangerous new era of foreign policy
From Catalonia to Kurdistan, long simmering regions are clamoring for their own states. But what good is being a state anymore?
North Korea has the worst human rights record of any country in the world except perhaps Eritrea and Syria. There is, however,…
What About the Rest of Us?
North Korea has demonstrated that itās quite pragmatic. It will work with anyone ā churches, multinational corporations ā if itās a win-win deal
If Trump succeeds in ramping up military spending and gutting everything else, weāll be left with a bunch of nukes and an underfunded state ā and no one but China to keep us afloat
The United States could have helped build a truly cooperative world order in 1990. Because it didnāt, the world now faces the twin challenges to the international rule of law: the Islamic State and Donald Trump
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