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David RothkopfChicago Tribune |
Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. Similarly, supporters of the next president should not let him drive the nominations process for his new...
There has never been a week like this one in the long history of U.S. presidential transitions. There have of course, over the past two and a half...
So, let me get this straight, according to Bob Woodward’s new book War, Donald Trump was sitting in Mar-a-Lago on a trove of stolen U.S. national...
There is no question that the big loser at Tuesday night’s CBS vice presidential debate was the audience. It is not just that the debate was boring,...
It says something about the times in which we live that a second apparent assassination attempt against a former U.S. president is not the most...
If Tuesday night’s presidential debate were a boxing match it might have been stopped by the referees in its very first moments when Kamala Harris...
When Donald Trump first heard on Thursday morning that Vladimir Putin had endorsed Kamala Harris for president, he must have been shattered. Not...
A big question was answered during the CNN interview of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Viewers saw for...
They saved the best for last. In a week of speechmaking like none of us have seen in our lifetimes, with one barn-burning or heart-tugging or...
They’re baaaa-ack. Well, actually, truth be told, they never left. They are America’s political media elites and they are still up to their old...
Kamala Harris has chosen. She has picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate and in so doing she has both set the terms for the 2024...
This May and June, leaders from Washington’s policy, political, legal, and national security communities got together to imagine what for many of us...
On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray triggered a firestorm when he told a congressional hearing on the assassination attempt against former...
Joe Biden is about to embark on what is likely to be a long weekend—but not the good kind we normally associate with summer. According to reliable...
Donald Trump is a changed man. We know because he has said so. He has framed his near-death experience at the Pennsylvania rally at which a sniper...
The most significant thing about President Biden’s Thursday press conference following the NATO summit was that while he was doing it, his opponent...
As NATO’s leaders and their teams mix in the corridors and cocktail parties surrounding their 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC. this week,...
While the debate over Joe Biden’s future has raised many questions, it has made one thing much clearer. It is time for Americans to get used to the...
Will he stand, or will he stand down? That’s the question Joe Biden is facing as the July 4 holiday weekend begins. Biden reportedly told “a key...
Joe Biden has had a great presidency. By any objective metric, he has excelled as president. One of his top aides, who worked closely with him in the...
If Vladimir Putin got up early to watch the U.S. presidential debate, he might have called for a bottle of champagne to go with his breakfast. It is...
It is not easy to go from betraying a state to being welcomed back into its capital. Jefferson Davis avoided Washington, DC after the Civil War. It...
Watching the small parade of elderly men and women—many in wheelchairs, some wearing military insignia—receive the gratitude of the President of...
Inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress is a bad idea that just got worse. Multiple news sites...
As I sat across a table from a minister in the Bulgarian government in his office in Sofia, he shook his head and then held it in his hands. “I...
One by one they offered their loyalty pledge to MAGA’s Dear Leader. One by one Republican leaders publicly placed fealty to Donald Trump ahead of...
The Trump verdict continues to send shockwaves across the American political landscape—and on Friday, at his rambling Trump Tower press conference,...
Joe Biden’s statement that he would limit offensive weapons shipments to Israel if they expand their operations in Rafah is one of the most...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, over the past several days, cemented his position as America’s worst ally. In fact, given his...
The first stages of the trial of the People of New York State vs. Donald J. Trump have been illuminating in a variety of ways. They have made it...
There are many creatures in the animal kingdom—from weasels to spotted skunks to ostriches—that perform a dance to intimidate their enemies. This...
Iran launched an attack on Israel Saturday that was apparently designed by Iran to be both dramatic and ineffective. It was dramatic, because in the...
Donald Trump, over the past few weeks, has grown more vocal about what his foreign policy would look like in a second administration. You might even...
Outrage and indignation from the President of the United States and his aides, no matter how great, no matter how many times expressed or leaked to...
Within 24 hours, two Israeli strikes occurred on targets that could not be more different. Both however, have the possibility of dramatically altering...
Bernard Schwartz was the last person in my life to regularly refer to me as “kid.” When in the course of our many collaborations over the past two...
Benjamin Netanyahu has brought the U.S.-Israel relationship to the breaking point. The tensions between the Biden administration and Netanyahu’s...
Within a 24-hour period, the 2024 presidential campaign kicked off in a way that could not present the choice before the American public more starkly....
While the Biden administration is extremely disciplined in terms of the foreign policy messages delivered by the president and the various members of...
The clock is ticking. The Biden administration has gone all-in on its efforts to bring the fighting in Gaza to a halt. The increasingly emphatic U.S....
I don’t think most Americans realize how close we are to losing everything we most value about our system of government. It is not just that the...
This week, U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrated yet again why theirs is the foreign policy world’s...
We are dramatically understating the threat Donald Trump and the MAGA movement pose to the security of the United States, Europe and the world. It is...
Democrats are in need of a reality check. The stakes are too high for us to indulge in the kind of denial, self-deception, and illusions that are a...