Eliot A. Cohen
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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?
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Stan Allen An Actually Magical Convention
At the heart of the appeal of magic is wonder—the joyful astonishment of childhood that we tend to forget as adults.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How This Will End
Sooner or later, tyrants are always abandoned by their followers.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Pulling Security Clearances Is Just the Start
Another norm falls victim to Trump as he turns the power of government against his critics
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Leah Millis / Reuters Meet the Trumpverstehers
We know about the president’s most vocal supporters. But what about his more discreet following?
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Alden Bentley / Reuters The Lesson of the Great War
A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past.
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Alex Brandon / AP Where ‘America First’ Once Led
A new exhibit reveals America’s isolationist attitudes and policies during the Holocaust—and speaks to where the country still stands today.
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Andrew Harnik / AP A Reckoning for Obama's Foreign-Policy Legacy
Veterans of the last administration are learning a hard lesson: Policies constructed by executive order and executive agreement are just as easily blown up by them.
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AP Photo The Party of Ike
Eisenhower—embodying prudence, diligence, and broad-mindedness—offers conservatives in the age of Trump a different model of leadership.
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Omar Sanadiki / Reuters Neither Precise Nor Proportionate
Trump’s attack on Syria was unserious but intended to relieve emotional pressure—and in many ways, worse than doing nothing at all.
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AP A Modest Plea for Patriotic History
If Americans were more familiar with the complex heroes of their past, they would be better equipped to recognize people of good character today.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters McMaster's Choice
Before he was the national-security adviser, he wrote a lacerating account of generals who failed in advising Lyndon Johnson. What will he say now that he is free to talk about Trump?
