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Donald Trump’s Incredibly Reckless Second Term

Donald Trump’s Incredibly Reckless Second Term

I look at President Donald Trump’s second term and see the ham-handed efforts to annex Greenland and Canada, massive tariff hikes on most of the...

22.05.2026 9

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Donald Trump’s incredibly reckless second term

Donald Trump’s incredibly reckless second term
22.05.2026 20

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Trump’s China Pragmatism Is Welcome

FP’s analysis and reporting Regular readers of this column know that I have not been a fan of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in his...

18.05.2026 10

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Trump’s China pragmatism is welcome

17.05.2026 10

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The Iran Dilemma Washington Refuses to Resolve

Foreign & Public Diplomacy Why is the most powerful country on the planet unable to get its way with a much smaller, weaker country that has been...

08.05.2026 10

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Iran is no match for America. Why hasn’t Washington defeated it?

08.05.2026 30

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The Costs of Trump’s Contempt Are Starting to Show

I was recently in Shenzhen, the heart of China’s industrial machine, talking to one of that country’s legendary businessmen. I asked him about the...

24.04.2026 30

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The costs of Trump’s contempt are starting to show

24.04.2026 80

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U.S. Volatility Is Advancing China’s Long Game

Foreign & Public Diplomacy Something puzzling is happening on the world stage. The United States has been infuriating much of the globe by being...

20.04.2026 20

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What Chinese officials told me about Trump’s bewildering war in Iran

20.04.2026 50

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U.S. Power Rests on Open Seas

“It’s a beautiful thing,” President Donald Trump said recently, musing about a joint venture with Iran to act as the gatekeepers of the Strait...

10.04.2026 20

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Trump’s outrageous Hormuz talk shuns basic strategy

10.04.2026 30

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Trump’s Iran Own Goal

Well into the second month of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, it is worth taking stock of where things stand. Here’s what things looked like in Iran...

03.04.2026 30

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Trump’s Iran own goal

03.04.2026 30

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Trump’s Red Lines Mean Nothing Now

In the years after Barack Obama’s presidency, it became an article of faith that one of his central errors in foreign policy was the Syria “red...

27.03.2026 30

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Trump’s bluff in Iran is a ‘disaster’ of his own

27.03.2026 90

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Iran and the New Arithmetic of War

Science and Technology Beneath the daily headlines of strikes and counterstrikes in the Middle East, war is being utterly transformed. In the first...

20.03.2026 40

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In Iran, the future of war is coming into view

20.03.2026 40

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America’s Imperial Trap in Iran

Middle East and North Africa For around 15 years, many American leaders—including all three presidents in that period—believed that the country...

13.03.2026 100

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Iran is an imperial trap. America walked right in.

13.03.2026 50

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An Iranian civil war is not in America’s interest

06.03.2026 20

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An Iranian Civil War Is Not in America’s Interest

Middle East and North Africa “Regime change by jazz improvisation.” That is how the respected scholar of Iran Karim Sadjadpour described the Trump...

06.03.2026 30

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‘Bomb and Hope’ Is Not a Strategy

Middle East and North Africa In his 1 hour, 47-minute State of the Union address, President Donald Trump spent three minutes on Iran. This is alarming...

27.02.2026 40

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‘Bomb and hope’ is not a strategy

27.02.2026 30

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New Yorkers will pay for this

20.02.2026 20

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European-Scale Taxation, New York-Scale Dysfunction

Zohran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York City affordable. This week, he unveiled a budget that is, in a word, unaffordable. New York has been...

20.02.2026 40

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What do voters want? Two countries are making the answer clear.

15.02.2026 100

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What Takaichi’s Triumph and Starmer’s Slump Say About Global Democracy

What do two striking political facts tell us about the mood of the world today? In Japan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has just won the largest lower...

13.02.2026 40

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The Post-Cold War Nuclear Era Might Have Just Ended

09.02.2026 30

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The post-Cold War nuclear era might have just ended

07.02.2026 50

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The Real ‘Civilizational Erasure’ Is Happening in America

02.02.2026 40

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The real ‘civilizational erasure’ is happening in America

31.01.2026 200

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‘He treats us with contempt’: This is not leadership

23.01.2026 30

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How Not to Lead

23.01.2026 40

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The world is adjusting to an unreliable United States

16.01.2026 150

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The World Is Adjusting to an Unreliable United States

16.01.2026 30

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Trump Is Teaching the World to Fear America

10.01.2026 40

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Trump is teaching the world to fear America

10.01.2026 100

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Ukraine’s fate in 2026 will define the international order

03.01.2026 90

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Ukraine’s Fate in 2026 Will Define the International Order

03.01.2026 60

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Trump’s Doctrine Is ‘Make America Small Again’

19.12.2025 30

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Trump’s doctrine is ‘Make America Small Again’

19.12.2025 30

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Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse

06.12.2025 30

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America’s Emerging Plutocracy

05.12.2025 30

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Strongmen around the world are increasingly inspired by America’s example

28.11.2025 40

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Ukraine is teetering. Why return to a failed policy?

22.11.2025 30

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Trump’s New Ukraine Policy Is Old Hat

22.11.2025 30

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Why Democrats keep flailing

15.11.2025 60

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The lessons Democrats need to learn to win again

08.11.2025 40

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Trump now plays by China’s rules

01.11.2025 30

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