When you raise the alarm about threats to democracy — as you should — your choice of words is not merely stylistic. It is the...

“Live by the sword, die by the sword” explains James Comey’s arc with unnerving precision. He stepped outside institutional armor in...

There is nothing wrong with knowing what you want to get if you're going to vote for a bit of legislation. The Democratic Party will...

Late in his September 23 UN address, Trump turned his fire on Brazil. He declared: “Brazil is doing poorly and will continue to do...

In his September 23 UN address, Trump returned to one of his favorite tools of division: NATO burden-sharing. He claimed that at the June...

Trump’s September 23 UN address included a lengthy tirade against the institution itself. He mocked the organization as feckless,...

After migration, crime, climate, and Ukraine, Trump turned to Gaza. In his September 23 UN address, he framed the ongoing war not as a...

Having struck at migration, crime, and climate, Trump turned next to the war in Ukraine. In his September 23 UN address, he did not frame...

After migration and crime, Trump’s third cudgel in his September 23 UN address targeted climate policy and energy. Where Part 1 exposed...

Trump’s September 23 UN address opened with migration as the spearhead of his attack. In Part 1, we saw how he portrayed the UN as...

President Trump’s September 23 address to the United Nations was not a policy speech so much as a weaponized performance. He selected...

Vlad Vexler and I reach the same conclusion about President Trump’s latest posture on Ukraine: it is nothing to celebrate, because it...

NATO cannot fully move into its capstoned phase while burdened by leadership that failed the critical tests caused by Trump 2.0. Mark...

President Trump’s descent into cartoonish spectacle has had an unintended effect: it has delivered the capstone to the alliance’s...

Disney has crossed an inviolate line, and the price must now be paid: it must be broken up. The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel was not some...

Let us begin with three premises. First, Ukraine is on the cusp of punishing Putin on a scale yet unseen, as drone warfare strips away...

James Comey has tried to frame his intervention in the 2016 election as a tragic but dutiful act, accompanied by his admission of feeling...

The essence of durable alliance is mutual need reinforced by mutual respect. Ukraine can trust me because my survival is inseparably tied...

Orientation: game theory as the frame What we are seeing with Trump-Putin is a two-king game on a nuclear chessboard. The first king...

The debate over how to leverage the hundreds of billions in immobilised Russian sovereign assets has always been defined less by...