Tom McTague
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Getty / The Atlantic Joe Biden Has a Europe Problem
The new president has a daunting list of foreign-policy challenges. Among the biggest will be managing a longtime ally.
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Nanna Heitmann / Magnum Will Someone Take Charge?
Fatherhood coupled with pandemic restrictions reminded me that security is not just about personal safety from violence or terrorism.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic Is This How Greatness Ends?
Some of the American mystique has gone, even if the raw power remains. That is what makes the scenes in Washington not simply pathetic, but important too.
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Mary Turner / Panos Pictures / Redux Britain Failed. Again.
The country has gone into lockdown once more. The current set of restrictions has more troubling reasons than the last.
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Jim Wileman / Guardian / eyevine / Redux Why Britain’s Brexit Mayhem Was Worth It
The country appeared willing to throw away a huge chunk of trade over a minor industry. But national life has to be about more than simple calculations of GDP.
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Terry Fincher / Express / Getty John le Carré Knew England’s Secrets
He revealed more about the country’s ruling class than any political writer of his era.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Britain’s Vaccine Nationalism
The country has bet that, outside the EU, it can better regulate its economy to become more competitive.
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John Downing / Getty / Pete Souza / ... Why Political Leaders Are Never to Blame
Barack Obama and Margaret Thatcher are prophets who came to embody their countries’ stories and, crucially, changed those stories.
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Adrian Dennis / AFP / Getty / The ... Europe Can’t Blame Donald Trump Anymore
The question for the Continent’s leaders now is whether they can agree on what they are collectively for, not just what they are against.
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Adam Maida Joe Biden Won’t Fix America’s Relationships
Serious questions about America’s role in the world will not go away just because Donald Trump was defeated.
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Getty / The Atlantic The President Confirms the World’s Fears
Trump railed baselessly against fraud and laid claim to an election whose result remains in doubt.
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Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty Britain Is Holding Its Breath
The results of the U.S. election will pose existential questions in London.
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Rohan Hande How ‘America First’ Became America Alone
In his desperation to restore and showcase American strength, Donald Trump has made the country weaker.
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Rohan Hande The World Order That Donald Trump Revealed
When it comes to foreign policy, the president’s most important characteristic is not amorality or a lack of curiosity; it is naïveté.
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Getty / The Atlantic Boris Johnson Keeps Defying Gravity
The British prime minister continually survives the chaos of his choices—much to pundits’ chagrin. How?
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The Print Collector / Heritage Images / Getty The Great British Humbling
Like the bind of a tortuous finger trap, Britain’s Brexit conundrum grows tighter and more painful the more the country wrestles with it.
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Getty / The Atlantic Remember the ’90s, Don’t Long for a Return
The liberal order has collapsed, and the pandemic is revealing why the West needs to speed away from this not-so-golden era.
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The Atlantic How the Pandemic Revealed Britain’s National Illness
Boris Johnson has faced his share of blame for the country’s death count. But the British system was failing long before the coronavirus struck.
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The Atlantic How to Stay One Step Ahead of Donald Trump
Saudi leaders have figured out what makes the president tick like few others have.
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Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix / Getty Embracing the Compromises of Political Giants
John Hume helped bring peace to Northern Ireland. But the true legacy of his life lies in his understanding of complexity.
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