'We've Been in Continuous Crisis for 45 Days'

The Trump administration hasn’t even faced a major foreign-policy challenge yet.

• Uri Friedman
• Mar 6, 2017

America's Two-Front War of Ideas

There’s no consensus on the greatest ideological threat to the United States.

• Uri Friedman
• Mar 3, 2017

What Is a Populist?

And is Donald Trump one?

• Uri Friedman
• Feb 27, 2017

The Foreign-Policy Establishment Defends Itself From Trump

“The question confronting us as a nation is as consequential as any we have faced since the late 1940s,” a group of Republican and Democratic experts write.

• Uri Friedman
• Feb 22, 2017

‘Our Readiness for a Terrorist Attack Is Dangerously Low’

“I’ve never seen anything quite like” Trump’s approach to national security, says a former counterterrorism adviser to three presidents.

• Uri Friedman
• Feb 20, 2017

Trump and Russia: Lessons From the Red Scare

“Quite often the facts get lost in the hysteria.”

• Uri Friedman
• Feb 17, 2017

Adam Schiff: It’s ‘Unlikely’ That Flynn Acted Alone

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has some unanswered questions.

• Uri Friedman
• Feb 14, 2017

What Exactly Is Trump’s Travel Ban Supposed to Stop?

How the president’s advisers have made their case

• Uri Friedman
• Feb 9, 2017

Trump's Attack on the Legitimacy of Critiquing Military Operations

The president took to Twitter to argue that publicly discussing the success or failure of a mission “only emboldens the enemy.”

• Uri Friedman
• Feb 9, 2017

Where Countries Stand With Donald Trump: A Crib Sheet

China gets an upgrade.

• Uri Friedman
• Feb 7, 2017

European Leaders Are Now Describing Trump as a Threat

The new administration has called into question "the last 70 years of American foreign policy,” one says.

• Uri Friedman
• Jan 31, 2017

Where America's Terrorists Actually Come From

Syrian refugees have committed zero attacks in the United States.

• Uri Friedman
• Jan 30, 2017

Can the U.S. Military Compete With China’s Rooster-Dancing Capabilities?

Behold the awesome power of the People’s Liberation Army.

• Uri Friedman
• Jan 27, 2017

America’s New President: Borders Are Back

The big idea in Trump’s inauguration speech

• Uri Friedman
• Jan 20, 2017

Why Trump Is Thriving in an Age of Distrust

“Populism is people taking authority back from institutions they no longer have faith in.”

• Uri Friedman
• Jan 20, 2017

A Nigerian Nobel Winner Exits Trump’s America

“Trump’s wall is already under construction,” Wole Soyinka says. “Walls are built in the mind.”

• Uri Friedman
• Jan 17, 2017

What the World Might Look Like in 5 Years, According to U.S. Intelligence

Even America's own government analysts see the American Era drawing to a close.

• Uri Friedman
• Jan 10, 2017

‘We Have a Problem’: John Kerry on Making Policy by Twitter

The outgoing secretary of state takes a veiled swipe at the incoming president.

• Uri Friedman
• Jan 10, 2017

Donald Trump’s Asymmetric War on the Establishment

The logic of policy by tweet

• Kathy Gilsinan and Uri Friedman
• Jan 5, 2017