Why have Germany and the UK found themselves thrown so badly off-balance by the insurgent Trump Administration while France has been relatively unmoved?

By offering cooperation on China, he might be able to get concessions out of Donald Trump. But will it be enough?

We must remember that predatory authoritarianism is not stamped into the Russian DNA.

If an alliance is forming between Ankara, Moscow, and Tehran, it’s a flimsy one at best.

Are the grievances tearing our societies apart at this hyper-polarized moment insurmountable? A week with some AfD voters and politicians gave me a measure of hope.

America’s favorite Frenchman is not what he seems.

What is new is not identity politics, but politics as identity—and it’s driving a culture of grievance.

As the fulcrum of power moves away from the West, so does America. This fact lies at the core of the President’s intuitions about the world.

Political parties are both weak and strong in the United States. What does that portend for our democracy?

Thomas Wright’s book from last year correctly diagnosed our foreign policy predicament. The extent to which his prescriptions are unworkable in the Age of Trump tells us even more.