November 21, 2013
IranHere’s an interesting quote: Never have I seen Israel and America’s core Arab allies working more in concert to stymie a major foreign policy initiative of a sitting U.S. president, and never have I…
December 14, 2011
United StatesOccasionally critics of the government of Israel and of its American supporters put aside polite talk and bare their souls, and that can be an edifying if deeply unattractive moment. Such a moment ar…
December 4, 2019
Election 2020Each week between now and the Iowa caucuses, I’m talking with two experts with differing views on how the United States should handle a foreign policy challenge it faces. These special episodes are p…
November 6, 2019
Election 2020The latest episode of The President’s Inbox is now live. The Iowa caucuses, the formal start of the presidential nominating process, are just three months away. Given that elections matter for U.S. f…
November 1, 2019
International OrganizationsThe International Monetary Fund, both criticized and lauded for its efforts to promote financial stability, continues to find itself at the forefront of global economic crisis management.
October 16, 2019
TurkeyThe latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live. I sat down with Henri Barkey, CFR’s adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies, and Steven Cook, CFR’s Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Midd…
March 3, 2011
Sub-Saharan AfricaA youth wearing a shirt of U.S. President Barack Obama stands in a crowd waiting for food distribution at Mugunga, just west of the eastern Congolese city of Goma, August 24, 2010. (Finbarr O'R…
August 6, 2019
Election 2020Is America ready for a president who is single and a vegan? Cory Booker, New Jersey’s junior senator, certainly hopes so. The fifty-year-old former Rhodes Scholar would be the first bachelor elected …
May 8, 2019
World OrderThe United States should throttle back on great power adventurism and promote a transparent system of multilateral rules that advance mutual security and prosperity.
April 29, 2019
Grand StrategyAmerican grand strategy should draw inspiration from the principles of the post-war order. The United States should work to advance an open world.
