Eliot A. Cohen
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Trump Is Playing Chess One Turn at a Time
An impulsive president tries to look tough without being prepared to follow through.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters He’s No King David
Some of the president’s supporters have taken to comparing him to the biblical monarch.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty The Line Must Hold
Every society must make clear what it expects of its armed servants.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty Trump’s Character Betrays Him
In foreign policy, reputation means everything.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters Go Read the Declaration of Independence
The universality of its ideals is precisely what makes the United States exceptional.
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Eugene Hoshiko / AP A Stain on the Honor of the Navy
In acceding to a White House request to cover the name of the USS John S. McCain, officers and officials revealed a rot within the service.
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Rand Corporation / The Atlantic The Brain of the Pentagon
Andrew Marshall leaves behind an American tradition of strategic thinking that will live well beyond him.
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AP Lessons of the Real Resistance
Choices might appear when people least expect them.
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FJO via Facebook / United States Holocaust Memorial ... Socially Acceptable Anti-Semitism
It is the religion of people too lazy to accept the complexity of reality.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Honor and Dishonor
Cohen is sleazy, Gaetz is nasty, Gallagher is principled—and the remaining members of the GOP fall somewhere in between.
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Alex Wong / Getty What It Means When Trump Doesn’t Show Up
Most presidents have visited and spoken at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day. Not Trump.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters You Can't Serve Both Trump and America
The departure of Jim Mattis is proof that you cannot have it all.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Presidents Need to Visit the Troops
It’s how commanders in chief show soldiers they’re not forgotten.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Trump Fails His Rendezvous in France
A century after thousands of Americans laid down their lives, the president of the United States absented himself from the ceremony commemorating their sacrifice.
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Michael Urban / AFP / Getty The Saruman Trap
When power is corrupt, there is no way to escape its toxic influence.
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Aaron Josefczyk / Reuters The Stench of Violence
Politicians are feeding the atmosphere in which hatred incubates and breeds.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters The Republican Party Abandons Conservatism
The conservative virtues remain real virtues, the conservative insights real insights, and the conservative temperament an indispensable internal gyro keeping a country stable and sane.
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Thomas Lohnes / dapd / AP The Crisis of the American Elites
Judith Butler and Ed Whelan share little in common—save their willingness to direct cruelty against ordinary people in defense of eminent colleagues.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters John McCain’s Parting Gift to His Nation
The senator orchestrated a final ceremony that called his fellow citizens to live up to the greatness of American ideals.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Great-Heart Is Gone
Who will have the fortitude to pick up the torch from John McCain’s grasp?
