Thomas Cole, "Destruction," 1836 (from "Course of Empire" series) Rita Konaev has a great piece at the Washington Post on the Trump administration's new policy for international students. If this.
I've written before about the Trump administration's reckless and dangerous assault on America's diplomatic power. Our diplomats are the lifeblood of extensive international networks that the United States uses to mobilize.
If you'd asked me about the fate of the American-led international system a few weeks ago, I would have said that Trump has done enormous damage to US leadership and.
Josh Rogin write in the Washington Post that: Trump has been publicly trashing the E.U. and NATO since his campaign, but the pace and viciousness of his attacks have increased..
Who "won" the week? Was it the president whose i) approval rating has firmly slipped into negative territory as people begin to realize just how badly he's wrecking the economy.
There's a lot of uncertainty right now, whether about the economy, the pandemic, or the general political situation. We have a president who lies and deflects, making the inevitable noise.
I've been working on a post detailing the ways that the Trump Administration is destroying the State Department, but it looks like I can outsource it to this Foreign Policy article.
Julia Ioffe's article on her interviews with career State Department employees manages to be heartbreaking, appalling, and frightening at the same time. You should read the whole thing, but here.
