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I’ve watched the American triumvirate of leaders for a long time: principals House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Senate Republican leader John Thune and President Donald Trump. The ancient Roman triumvirate of generals had one that was truly great: Julius Caesar, famous ...
I am an Iran hardliner. But I’m struggling to understand how other hardliners can be so credulous about President Donald Trump’s leadership of this war. It’s as if you were stranded by the side of the road and accepted a ride from an obviously drunk driver. Earlier this month, the Wall ...
The World Bank recently published a 276-page report supporting the idea that industrial policy belongs “in the national policy toolkit of all countries.” This is a significant reversal for an institution that spent decades pushing developing nations toward fiscal discipline, open trade and ...
When President Trump spoke at the Saudi Future Investment Initiative on Friday, he offered a pristine example of what he calls “the weave.” What detractors take for incontinent verbal rambling is, in his own telling, genius-level embroidery of a rhetorical mosaic. While spinning his ...
In Washington recently, the foreign minister of a Middle Eastern country under attack by Iran argued that Iran must at last be forcefully confronted by the international community, and that continuing to kick the can down the road when it comes to Tehran is unacceptable. “You have to be ...
When he ran for president again in 2024, Trump made three promises to the American public: First, he said he’d “secure” the southern border. Most Americans now believe he’s gone too far in this. Second, he’d avoid foreign wars. He said: “We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle ...