The ‘Trump Dossier,’ or How Russia Helped America Break Itself
Getting Trump elected was not Putin’s goal. The Kremlin just wanted to sow discord and delegitimize the United States’ democratic institutions. Mission accomplished?
By Mark Galeotti · June 13, 2017
Trump’s Middle East Trip Was a Big, Surprising Success—and the Iranian Regime is Nervous
How the president’s photo-op diplomacy plays in Riyadh, Tehran, Beirut, Jerusalem, and back home in Trumpland
By Lee Smith · May 23, 2017
Bibi Should Tell Trump to Go Take a Selfie
When the American president visits the Western Wall next week as part of his Abrahamic monotheism heritage tour, he’ll be using the Jewish state as a prop—in a fantasy of Middle East peace, starring himself.
By Lee Smith · May 18, 2017
Free Iran’s Mandela, Ayatollah Boroujerdi
The prominent cleric spent 11 years in prison for preaching religious tolerance, equality, and non-violence inside the repressive theocracy
By Majid Rafizadeh · May 16, 2017
Mahmoud Abbas Is History’s Most Stubborn Real Estate Holdout
And Donald Trump knows ‘The Art of the Deal.’ Who will blink first?
By Lee Smith · May 8, 2017
Why Everything You Think You Know About Foreign Policy Is Wrong
How Gladwellian Internet ‘hot takes’ fueled the new echo-chamber press that enabled Obama’s foreign policy—and still rules Washington
By Lee Smith · May 1, 2017
Obama’s Ghosts
An accounting of the Democrats’ legacy in the Middle East, and where they can go from here
By Martin Peretz · April 13, 2017
Steve Bannon’s Mentor, 91-year-old French Author Jean Raspail
A visit with the former Boy Scout and writer of ‘The Camp of the Saints’—and other fantasies of White domination of Western Civilization, which inspire Donald Trump’s adviser
By Marc Weitzmann · March 27, 2017
Are the Neocons Still Republicans?
The foreign policy establishment that led us into Iraq finds itself in its own Never Trump desert
By Chris Pomorski · March 27, 2017
Will Obama’s Foreign Policy Wizards Save Trump?
The new president’s approach to Iran, Syria, and Israel looks a lot like the old president’s—because the same people are implementing it
By Lee Smith · March 15, 2017
Syria and the Failure of the Multicultural American Left
Six Years of Syrian Civil War: Why Assad is the Franco of the Middle East, and why the United States has done so little to help his victims—80 years after liberal-minded Americans took up arms in the Spanish Civil War
By Yoav Fromer · February 12, 2017
An Open Letter to Robert Kraft
From a lifelong New England Patriots fan who wonders about your friendship with President Donald Trump
By Matthew Fishbane · January 30, 2017
Shall We Wake the Prime Minister, Habibi?
American politicians love to talk about ‘3 a.m. phone calls,’ but Israeli leaders actually receive them
By Tevi Troy · January 23, 2017
Pro-Israel Hoaxer Hits DC
Did an anti-Zionist filmmaker from Oxford masquerade as his political opposite to get internships at lobbying outfits?
By Armin Rosen · January 20, 2017
What Obama Owes Putin—and Why Donald Trump Is Left Holding the Bag
Broader aims on Middle East realignment led the outgoing president’s efforts at two-track diplomacy. One track was misdirection. The other handed the region to Russia and Iran.
By Lee Smith · January 17, 2017
No One Is Afraid of AIPAC
The flagship pro-Israel lobbying organization failed to stop Obama’s Iran Deal. It may lose even more influence under Trump.
By Armin Rosen · January 3, 2017
Obama’s Syria Policy Striptease
America’s Moral Collapse in Syria: Why hasn’t the administration done anything about Syria, and won’t? Because the Iran Deal.
By Tony Badran · September 21, 2016
Saint Nick’s Math Problem
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Nicholas D. Kristof doesn’t understand how foreign aid works
By Lee Smith · September 20, 2016
The Never-Ending Debate Over the Iran Deal (Back-to-School Edition)
Latest developments in the deployment of Barack Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement: Are we safer?
By Armin Rosen · September 9, 2016
Obama’s Syria Policy Isn’t a ‘Mistake.’ It’s Deliberate.
How the Iran deal explains the administration’s inaction in Syria
By Lee Smith · September 7, 2016
Trump’s Jews
The Republican presidential candidate has Jewish family members and friends. Here’s who they are.
By Armin Rosen · July 15, 2016
The End of AIPAC’s Israel Monopoly
What happened to the most powerful lobby in recent U.S. foreign-policy history?
By Bruce Abramson and Jeff Ballabon · July 11, 2016
Why Bibi’s Visits to Moscow Mean Bad News for Israel
The geopolitics that links Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Hezbollah, and the Jewish State
By Tony Badran · July 5, 2016
How Is the Paris Peace Conference Different From All Other Peace Conferences?
The Obama Administration shifts away from the bilateral model that has characterized American brokerage of the process since the 1990s
By Matthew Duss · June 6, 2016
The New American Isolationism Will Outlive Barack Obama
With Trump, Clinton, Sanders, or Cruz, the United States is likely to consolidate a risky retreat from the global stage
By Josef Joffe · May 2, 2016
A Masterful Account of Humiliation and Despair
Robert F. Worth’s ‘A Rage for Order’ brings the broad disappointments of the Arab Spring to the human level
By Adam Kirsch · April 27, 2016
Loathe Thy Brother
Are Donald Trump and Barack Obama two examples of the same American affliction?
By Lee Smith · April 5, 2016
Ending the Mindset Is Hard
President Barack Obama has done more to pivot the United States away from the hawkish foreign policy entrenched in Washington than even his supporters give him credit for
By Matthew Duss · March 17, 2016
TOEFL, a Desperately Dull and Profoundly Unfair Exam, Abuses the English Language
I tried to prep a pair of Afghan teens for American boarding school, but instead of teaching them the language they need, I spent all my time explaining cultural references and unfamiliar contexts
By Ann Marlowe · March 13, 2016
The Far Left and the Far Right Take Us on a Joyride Back to the Future
What was once the oppositional language of fringe parties in Europe has combined into a toxic new politics that is making its way to the center of Western democratic discourse. That should frighten us.
By Harold James · March 6, 2016
