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Reuters / Handout The Precedent for Trump's Administration Isn't Nixon—It's Clinton
A network analysis of the structure of the president's inner circle suggests some surprising parallels.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Why Trump Should Worry More About Congress Than About Mueller
It’s public hearings that tend to galvanize opposition and jeopardize presidents.
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Max-o-matic Why the U.S. President Needs a Council of Historians
It isn’t enough for a commander in chief to invite friendly academics to dinner. The U.S. could avoid future disaster if policy makers started looking more to the past.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Barack Obama’s Revolution in Foreign Policy
When you think you’re the smartest person in the room, it’s tempting to make up your own grand strategy.
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A War to Start All Wars
The Middle East looks like Europe circa World War I.
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The Widening Atlantic
Our growing transatlantic estrangement has less to do with George W. Bush's foreign policy than with deep social changes in Europe
