Saudi Arabia

When to fist bump an autocrat

James Snell is a wide­ly pub­lished writer and a senior advi­sor on Spe­cial Ini­tia­tives at the New Lines Insti­tute. Just last month, there stood Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, fist bump­ing Sau­di Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who the U.S. intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty says approved the mur­der of jour­nal­ist Jamal Khashog­gi in 2018. It wasn’t a…