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America at its best promotes its interests through enlightened self-interest: not by seeing every interaction in narrow, transactional terms, but by trying to widen the circle of countries who share its interests and values.
President Trump’s tendency to placate Putin is perceived as weakness by the Russian leader.
President Trump’s “America First” approach is built on the idea that the United States is better off going it alone—precisely the wrong approach at a time when the international landscape is more crowded and contested than ever.
In the age of Trump, the United States is abandoning the power of negotiation and persuasion.
The Algeria protests represent a unique sequence of events that the country has not witnessed since the 1990's.
The muscles of U.S. diplomacy have atrophied—and they are in need of urgent renewal.
Terrorism is an important problem, but it is not a problem that is amenable to being “solved” in any straightforward sense of the word.
The Trump administration has diminished U.S. influence on a shifting international landscape, hollowed out American diplomacy, and only deepened the divisions among Americans about our global role.
Most Americans don’t need to be persuaded of the importance of disciplined U.S. leadership in the world. But what they are not so convinced of is the disciplined part.