NYT has a list of forreign policy problems for which the president wants to do deals and is surprisingly optimistic…
Last night's debate among Democratic presidential candidates spent relatively little time on foreign policy, maybe 10-12 minutes out of the…
- I agree with Thomas Wright of Brookings that Bolton's ouster presages a pivot to diplomacy for the elections. I…
John Bolton and Donald Trump were always an odd couple: the one a consistent hawkish interventionist and bureaucratic operator in…
On September 10 the Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion entitled "The Counter-ISIS Coalition: Diplomacy and Security in Action." The…
John Bolton is out. The consensus of major reporting is that, despite numerous disagreements between the adviser and the president,…
I hope I'm right: the tide is turning. President Trump, Prime Minister Johnson, President Putin, and President Erdogan are all…
At last some worthwhile stories about Congress, just back from its 6 week recess.- RollCall says departing members will find…
Several threads run through all the major stories on the Afghan peace talks: the president wanted a US troop withdrawal…
President Trump claims to have cancelled a "summit" at Camp David next weekend with the Taliban, in response to an…