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The Atlantic The Blob Meets the Heartland
Foreign policy should work better for America’s middle class.
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Getty ‘America First’ Enters Its Most Combustible Moment
If the next 150 days turn out to be Trump’s final days in office, he could still wreak a lot of havoc on American foreign policy.
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The Atlantic The United States Needs a New Foreign Policy
The global order is crumbling, domestic renewal is urgent, and America must reinvent its role in the world.
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The Atlantic Polarized Politics Has Infected American Diplomacy
Foreigners aren’t laughing at us. They pity and discount us.
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Johanna Goodman America Needs a Rebirth of Public Service
We need every ounce of talent and energy to not only rebuild but reinvent our society.
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Edmon De Haro A Make-or-Break Test for American Diplomacy
The post-pandemic world will pose a massive test for U.S. statecraft, the biggest since the end of the Cold War.
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Bettmann / Getty / Katie Martin / The … The Damage at the State Department Is Worse Than You Can Imagine
But it’s also more reparable.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The U.S.-India Relationship Is Bigger Than Trump and Modi
Will the strategic bet that America and India have made on each other deliver on its full potential?
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Impunity Is Triumphing Over Integrity
Trump’s attacks on public servants will do lasting damage to American diplomacy.
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Christopher Pike / Reuters The Death of a Temperate Leader in an Intemperate Region
Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who died on Friday, brought Oman into the modern age and made the Iran deal possible.
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Handout / Reuters Soleimani’s Ultimate Revenge
In his death, the Iranian general may cost the United States far more than it gained by his killing.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Small European Allies See Trump
An American diplomat imagines what an ambassador in Washington, D.C., might write home at the end of the year.
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Maya Alleruzzo / AP An End to Magical Thinking in the Middle East
It’s time to abandon the dogma that’s driven our foreign policy and led to so much disaster in the region.
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Larry Downing / Reuters Trump’s Bureaucratic Arson
The real threat to democracy comes not from an imagined deep state, but from a weak state of hollowed-out institutions and battered and belittled public servants.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters We Led Successful Negotiations With Iran. Trump’s Approach Isn’t Working.
Coercive diplomacy has worked before, but coercion without diplomacy will not.
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Illustration by Lincoln Agnew; photos by Xander Heinl … How the U.S.-Russian Relationship Went Bad
An American diplomat tells the inside story of Yeltsin, Putin, and opportunities lost.
