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America Is Fumbling Its Most Important Relationship
China is an increasing problem for the United States. But the latest reactions and assumptions about China among America’s political-media leadership class hold every prospect of making China-related...
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Tariffs Can Work—but Not Stupid Ones
Tariffs and interventionist trade policy have had their place in the building of the American economy. You can look it up! But to say that they have paid off in particular times and places is different...
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American Foreign Policy: It’s Worse Than It Looks
This past week I argued that the current U.S. approach to China mattered enormously, and was being grievously mishandled. The set-up for the argument was a ranking of which U.S. relationships were...
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‘A Four-Star Dumpster Fire’: More on America’s Current Foreign Policy
In this item, I argued that America’s relationship with China really mattered, and was being disastrously screwed up. Then two readers said: Actually, the relationship with Europe, and with Canada and...
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This Is the Moment of Truth for Republicans
There are exactly two possible explanations for the shameful performance the world witnessed on Monday, from a serving American president.Either Donald Trump is flat-out an agent of Russian...
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Talent Dispersal: The Story of Epic and Erie
Two years ago at this time, when my wife, Deb, and I were in our fourth year of travel across the country to report on smaller towns, we found ourselves increasingly drawn to the lakefront city of...
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The Lessons of the Seattle Plane Crash
Modern life is full of potentially terrifying “what if?” possibilities. What if a pharmacist decided to substitute morphine pills or strychnine for the next prescription you pick up? What if a...
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The Greatest Disappointment of the Trump Presidency
In late January 2018, 12 months into the Donald Trump era, the military scholar Eliot Cohen looked back at an assessment he had written for The Atlantic in late January 2017, soon after Trump was sworn...
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It Would Take Only a Single Senator
A few days ago I wrote a long item about changing assessments of Donald Trump: which first impressions had held up, and which had called for second thoughts over time.The last part of the post...
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Tariffs Can Work—but Not Stupid Ones
Tariffs and interventionist trade policy have had their place in the building of the American economy. You can look it up! But to say that they have paid off in particular times and places is different...
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This Is the Moment of Truth for Republicans
There are exactly two possible explanations for the shameful performance the world witnessed on Monday, from a serving American president.Either Donald Trump is flat-out an agent of Russian...
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The Lessons of the Seattle Plane Crash
Modern life is full of potentially terrifying “What if?” possibilities. What if a pharmacist decided to substitute morphine pills or strychnine for the next prescription you pick up? What if a...
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The Greatest Disappointment of the Trump Presidency
In late January 2018, 12 months into the Donald Trump era, the military scholar Eliot Cohen looked back at an assessment he had written for The Atlantic in late January 2017, soon after Trump was sworn...
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It Would Take Only a Single Senator
A few days ago I wrote a long item about changing assessments of Donald Trump: which first impressions had held up, and which had called for second thoughts over time.The last part of the post...
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A Major Boost for Young Veterans Running for Congress
The funeral orations for John McCain were widely received as a reminder of what politics should be, in some remembered and perhaps mainly imagined nobler age. The remembered part might include Senator...
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Will More Veterans in Politics Make Politics Better?
This week I wrote about With Honor, a non-partisan PAC that is supporting “young veterans” — generally people age 45 and below who have served in the post-9/11 “long wars” — as candidates for political...
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Veterans in Politics: ‘They Are Your Best Bet’
Following this item on a new PAC that is supporting “young veterans” running for Congress, and this round of reader response (pro and con), another set of reactions.First, a reader with an angle I had...
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Veterans of the Long Wars: ‘Of course it’s a good thing we’ve begun entering...
William Henry Harrison was a veteran-politician. Should we have more? (A.S. Southworth and J.J. Hawes, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, via Wikimedia)One more round, on whether in this Chickenhawk...
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New College Rankings Are Out—Including Some That Are Actually Useful
As a one-time staff editor of The Washington Monthly magazine, I am biased in favor of that plucky enterprise and its approach to the world.As a one-time chief editor of US News & World Report, I...
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Is Bob Woodward Like Walter Cronkite?
Two very useful assessments of Bob Woodward’s mega-best-selling Fear, officially published today, are this one by Isaac Chotiner, in Slate, and this one by Andrew Prokop, in Vox. They both make one of...
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