The forever war in the Middle East is far from over.
Trump Punts on Syria
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Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Immigration Speech
The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So what do they have to lose by doing the right thing?
Will Trump Rule by Decree?
It’s a small leap from a “state of emergency” at the border to martial law throughout the country.
There Is Still Hope for Rojava
Kurds have established a democratic state in Syria. Can the United States help it survive?
Despite Everything, U.S. Troops Should Leave Syria
A small detachment of U.S. troops won’t protect the Kurds from Turkish aggression, but putting conditions on arms transfers might.
Trump and Syria: Even a Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day
To keep U.S. troops in Syria now implies a forever war, with no realistic ending imaginable, and no authorization from Congress.
Review: Season 2 of Trump Presidency
The scriptwriters planted all sorts of potential plot lines in Season 1, and they just didn’t go anywhere. Where’s the Wall? Where’s the deal with North Korea? Where’s that Rust Belt revival?
‘Get Me Outta Here’: Trump Turns the G20 into the G19
On everything from climate to trade to the international order itself, the failure of the White House’s powers of persuasion were on full display at the G20.
It’s Never ‘Just the Immigrants’
The targeting of immigrants is intimately linked to a long record of labor repression and civil liberties violations — which eventually target the native-born, too.
It’s a Borderful World
Nation-states: what a quaint notion. As a means of organizing territory, they seem to be a brief transition period between large empires and an even larger, borderless world. Sure, nation-states might live on in the form of anthems and flags and independence days, but...