
Tag: international order

China is a highly authoritarian state with an extremely poor record on human rights. During the 2000s, it seemed like the country was very slowly and tentatively liberalizing. This is no longer the ca
A new article in Foreign Policy by Colum Lynch and Robbie Gramer does a great job of summing up two reasons that the United States is losing influence over international ordering. The first is long-te

People have been handwringing about the impending demise of the liberal international order for over a decade. But, since 2016, that handwringing has given way, at least in some circles, to full-scale
I have new online piece, co-authored with Dani Nedal, at Foreign Affairs: President Donald Trump believes that America makes terrible deals—from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to the
Despite showing some questionable judgment about whom to cite, Paul Musgrave has a nice piece in the Washington Post on Russian propaganda and the US election. The whole thing does a good job of syn
- Whaddaya gonna do?
- Hoist by their own pseudo-scandal
- Democracy dies in triflin’ editorial and layout decisions
- True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
- The 12 stations of the grift
- Could Taco Bell Fail in Mexico?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,172
- Questions and Answers
- The surveillance techniques that will be used to prosecute women and girls for medically-induced abortions
- Also too, if the FBI says they found anything they’re making it up, and if they then produce it they planted it