Why a Pact to Weaken the Dollar Makes No Sense
A proposal to reprise a Reagan-era currency agreement has serious flaws.
Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned | Simon Tisdall
The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubris Tyrants come to a sticky end, or so history suggests. Richard III and Coriolanus made bloody exits. More recently, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows, Slobodan Milosevic went to jail, Bashar al-Assad went into exile. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was…
What Is Trump’s Foreign-Policy Doctrine?
Ten thinkers on the start of the U.S president’s second term.
MPs and peers oppose Donald Trump address to parliament during UK visit
Concerns raised address would be inappropriate because of president’s comments about UK, Nato and Ukraine A number of MPs and peers have called for Donald Trump to be blocked from addressing parliament when he visits the UK. The US president has suggested Buckingham Palace is “setting a date for September” for him to come to Britain.…
How Generations of Experts Built U.S. Power
And now Trump is throwing it all away.
How Europe Should Navigate Trump
Two former foreign ministers of NATO countries on the difficult path ahead for European nations.
National Endowment for Democracy Sues Top Trump Aides Over Funding Freeze
The nonprofit has enjoyed bipartisan support since its founding in the Reagan era, but it finds itself under pressure from the Trump administration.
Donald Trump is remaking the world. But he really won’t like the result | Nesrine Malik
As an erratic president imposes his international doctrine, countries are forging more stable alliances. His US will be weaker, not stronger One of the ways in which Donald Trump’s regime obscures and distracts is by drawing our eyes constantly to the US – its raw power to intimidate and bully other nations, and its vast…
How Israel Deceived the U.S. and Built the Bomb
Newly declassified documents reveal how Israel operated under the noses of U.S. inspectors.
Like it or not, the rules-based order is no more
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond column. A few weeks ago, when Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen spoke with soon-to-be U.S. President Donald Trump about his insistence on…