Tom McTague
He is a co-author of Betting the House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election, and is working on a new book about the history of Britain’s euroskeptic revolution called Conquest: The Fracturing of Britain.
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Stefan Boness / VISUM / Redux Why Boris Johnson Gets Away With It
The political reality is that a crisis caused by someone else in a faraway country may have saved Britain’s prime minister from a crisis caused by himself at home.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The West’s World War II Moment
The principal strategic threat to the Western world has shifted, creating a whole new set of problems.
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Getty / The Atlantic Biden Can’t Paper Over the West’s Disunity
The U.S. and Europe tout a revitalized alliance, but the president’s visit to Brussels masks deeper disagreements.
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Takuro Yabe / Pool / AFP; Getty Putin Needs an Off-Ramp
The question for world leaders is how to ensure the Russian president is defeated while nevertheless providing him with a route out of the crisis.
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Getty / The Atlantic For the West, the Worst Is Yet to Come
Perhaps the Ukraine crisis has saved the West from its pettiness and division. But the bigger picture is far more depressing.
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Guillaume Herbaut / Agence VU' / Redux What Volodymyr Zelensky’s Courage Says About the West
The Ukrainian leader’s refusal to back down is as inspiring as it is illuminating.
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Getty; The Atlantic Bury the Old World Order
The old ways of dealing with Russia no longer apply.
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The Atlantic How Much Will the West Sacrifice for Ukraine?
The Western world will have to prove that it has not become all of the things Vladimir Putin has long believed it to be.
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Allison Joyce / AFP / Getty Putin Has Made America Great Again
The Ukraine crisis has revealed that the U.S. can’t shed its “big brother” image on the world stage.
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The Atlantic Vladimir Putin Is a Product of Modernity
Why the tension in Ukraine may feel deceptively regressive
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Wolfgang Schwan / Anadolu Agency / Getty The Battle for the Future of the West
The real prize in Ukraine is the end of American influence in Europe.
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Stegan Rousseau / AFP / Getty; The Atlantic The Tears of a Clown
Boris Johnson’s unseriousness may have finally caught up to him.
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Disney How Encanto Explains America
All is not lost; the future is not set.
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Charles McQuillan / Getty The Party’s Over
Boris Johnson, Britain’s “minister of chaos,” may be forced from office for—what else?—partying on the job.
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Robbie Lawrence How Britain Falls Apart
A road trip through the ancient past and shaky future of the (dis)United Kingdom
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Micha Theiner / VISUM / Redux What Is the Point of Boris Johnson?
Two years after his historic general-election win, the most radical British prime minister since Margaret Thatcher is scandal-plagued, unpopular, and adrift.
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Charles McQuillan / Getty An Unlikely Threat to the Western Alliance
A worsening crisis in Northern Ireland carries far greater costs than simply domestic political fallout.
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Clemens Bilan / Pool / Getty The Leaderless World
The American president seems to want to make decisions in the U.S.’s selfish strategic interest, but without the consequences that come with doing so.
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Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty Britain’s Distasteful Soccer Sellout
The sale of Newcastle United to Saudi Arabia is emblematic of something far more fundamental and depressing about the state of Britain.
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Matt Dunham / AP Is Boris Johnson a Liar?
And if he is, why don’t his supporters seem to care?
