It’s not just that he’s making things up, but that he’s distracting us from very real, very consequential problems.
She stayed human where Trump went feral.
Potentially anything.
Coaxing despots into a cushy exile is sometimes the best option.
Pain is on the way even if interest-rate hikes work as intended—which is not a given.
Tunisia was the best case, Sudan the last hope, Syria the bloodiest of all: The countries that not long ago sparked optimism for a democratic wave in the Arab world have descended into dictatorship, and Washington shouldn’t ignore them.
The question is usually posed the other way around—which is an insult to the dynamic economy of this southern state that is now my home.
Why no one took on Trump
The former president’s recent rhetoric shows how his reelection could undo the central promise sustaining today’s international order.
The error of their mythology about 1989 matters because we face another such moment of historical rupture today.