Hello from the other side. After eight years of talks, China and 14 other nations from Japan to New Zealand to Myanmar on Sunday formally signed one of the world’s largest regional free trade agreem
Is there a German phrase for “something that you pretty much already know but still manages to be shocking when you encounter it”? Because that’s what I experienced reading Carl Bern
Yesterday the White House ordered the U.S. embassy in Seoul to remove its #BlackLivesMatter banner, as well as a Pride flag that the embassy put up in May. In some respects, the last few weeks have be
Alex Cooley and I have a new piece in Foreign Policy about “multipolar populism.” Despite important regional, cultural, and political differences, many contemporary populists embrace multi
I’m sure it’s purely a coincidence that we’re getting reports like this shortly after Trump fired the Director of National Intelligence (over this very issue) and replaced him with a
Oh, this is just great. When President Trump’s national security adviser, Robert C. O’Brien, convenes meetings with top National Security Council officials at the White House, he sometimes opens b
This is a longish post from that I put up yesterday at the book website. Regular readers will notice that I hit on a number of themes, as well as specific ideas, that I’ve developed at LGM. Many
Yesterday, The Atlantic ran a piece that I wrote about Trump’s handling of Syria. I argue that it encapsulates all of the reasons why Trump is really, really bad at foreign policy. Because Trump