Articles

All the U.S. President's Flip-Flops

2017-04-14

The simplest explanation for Donald Trump’s new positions on everything from Syria to interest rates? Ignorance.

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Did Trump get played by the king of Jordan like someone new to the region?

2017-04-14

Jordan has borne some of the heaviest burdens of the Syrian war

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U.S. oil company could fall to Russia as Venezuela struggles to pay its bills

2017-04-11

Venezuela is in dire economic straits at the moment

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Europe’s Reform Opportunity

2017-04-10

policymakers will need to acknowledge that they still lack effective policy-coordination tools

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Anti ISIS Coalition Meets for the First Time Under Trump

2017-03-28

The ongoing offensives to push ISIS out of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and seize Raqqa were key topics behind closed doors at the summit

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How Corruption Fuels Climate Change

2017-03-25

Last year marked the first time in millions of years that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million

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How to stop a populist

2017-03-20

One of the most effective bulwarks is having the right electoral system

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Wasta Rule

2017-03-20

The Islamic State’s governing system in Syria looks a great deal like that of the Assad regime

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Trump’s Imaginary Enemy

2017-03-19

Donald Trump’s administration is posturing for a stricter approach to China

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How Fake News Wins

2017-03-09

In response to the wave of fake news that inundated the recent presidential election campaign in the United States

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Trump’s Speech Before Congress Outlines Administration’s Goals

2017-03-06

A controversial president who has received a lot of criticism in the past month came across somewhat presidential

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What Is a Populist? And is Donald Trump one?

2017-03-02

To understand the current administration, populism is as important as nativism and authoritarianism

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How Trump is Testing Democracy

2017-02-27

Trump was elected largely for one reason: a substantial share of US voters were fed up with the state of the economy and the politicians who had overseen it

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What does the Resignation of National Security Advisor Flynn Mean?

2017-02-18

Flynn ostensibly resigned because he provided Vice President Mike Pence with “incomplete information”

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Can Trump Break Up the Russian-Iranian Alliance?

2017-02-14

Russia and Iran are currently engaged in unprecedented cooperation

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Donald Trump is helping Iran’s radicals

2017-02-14

Deploring the Donald is the one thing that unites the mullahs and the middle class

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How America Could Stumble Into War With Iran

2017-02-11

A major conflagration, whether intentional or not, is perhaps likelier now than ever.

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What Exactly Is Trump’s Travel Ban Supposed to Stop?

2017-02-11

How the president’s advisers have made their case

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Trump’s Chaos Theory of Government

2017-02-07

Trump’s transition was initially reassuring but all hell broke loose as Trump and Bannon began to implement their project in earnest

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Trump’s National Security Council Undergoes Change

2017-02-05

Trump may have changed the standard to what a president does in the first couple of weeks

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Tackling Iran: Trump fuels the fire

2017-02-04

Iran moved into President Donald J. Trump’s firing line when his national security advisor put the Islamic republic on notice

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Playing with Economic Matches

2017-02-01

The International Monetary Fund reported disappointing global GDP growth

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Trump brings shame to U.S. with immigration ban based on fear

2017-01-29

President has obliterated one of our countrys most virtuous tenets and crushed the American Dream for thousands who sought a better life

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When the Mob Rules, Everyone Is a Target

2017-01-22

Trump’s ochlocracy brings dangers and threats that the Republic has not witnessed since Joe McCarthy. Do we even know how to fight back?

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