He was previously the deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Rise of ‘Revisionist’ America
The U.S. president doesn’t want to play by the international rules the U.S. itself set.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Russian Speakers Explain What Putin Actually Said About Trump
In Helsinki, the Russian president didn’t confess to meddling. But he left no doubt about who he wanted to win the U.S. election.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The White House Transcript Is Missing the Most Explosive Part of the Trump–Putin Press Conference
It’s not clear whether the omission was intended, but the meaning of a key exchange is dramatically altered as a result.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Blames Bad Relations With Russia on Everything but Russia
In Helsinki, the president preferred to pin the problem on “many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity.”
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Reuters / Lehtikuva Trump Meets Putin While America Confronts Russia
The U.S. president may be seeking better terms with his counterpart. But the relationship between their countries just seems to keep getting worse.
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Reuters / KCNA What’s Missing From Kim Jong Un’s ‘Very Nice Note’ to Trump
The North Korean leader cites “epochal progress,” but leaves out one very important issue.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters Trump vs. NATO: It's Not Just About the Money
The president’s emphasis on spending obscures a much deeper skepticism of alliances.
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Andrew Harnik / Reuters America’s Moment of Truth With North Korea Is Coming
Mike Pompeo’s visit wasn’t it. But the visit hinted at what it might look like.
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Allison Shelley South Korea’s Ambassador Has a Message for All the North Korea Skeptics
“We need to be more patient,” says Cho Yoon Je. The Trump-Kim summit was “a good start.”
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Christinne Muschi / Reuters The World Bargain on Asylum Is Unraveling
The United States isn’t the only country struggling to deal with a surge in people seeking refuge.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Mystery at the Heart of North Korea Talks
The parties have yet to agree on what exactly should be "denuclearized." But one South Korean official has a plan to close the gap.
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Reuters / KCNA Here’s What Trump Actually Achieved With North Korea
It wasn’t what he said. But it was much more than nothing.
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White House / The Atlantic About That Movie Trailer Donald Trump Gave Kim Jong Un
It was a strange clip depicting a brighter future for North Korea in the event of a nuclear deal. The problem is it’s not clear the North Koreans want that future.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump Actually Seems to Believe He Denuclearized North Korea
The president claims the nuclear threat is gone, but that's not what he achieved in Singapore.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Got Nearly Nothing From Kim Jong Un
Maybe this is the beginning of something big. But it started off small.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters A Handshake Decades in the Making
Trump’s much-hyped meeting with Kim Jong Un upended the old ways of negotiating with the North Koreans.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters This Is Bigger Than a Meeting With Kim Jong Un
Donald Trump is navigating a new nuclear era—and fashioning a new approach.
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Bill Ferguson / Wikimedia / The Atlantic The ‘God Damn’ Tree That Nearly Brought America and North Korea to War
In 1976, two American soldiers were axed to death over a poplar tree. What came next threatened to change the course of history.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The French President Has Described America Like a Rogue State
"We have to try to convince the United States to remain in the community of nations.”
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Reuters / KCNA The Threat to Kim Jong Un Within North Korea
Generations of North Korean leaders have billed the nuclear program as the key to their country’s security and prosperity. You can’t contemplate giving that up without alienating a whole lot of people.
