James Traub

James Traub is a columnist at Foreign Policy, nonresident fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, and author of the book What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present and Promise of A Noble Idea.

Articles by James Traub

Joe Biden takes his sunglasses off as he arrives for a campaign event with President Barack Obama at Strawbery Banke Field in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Sept. 7, 2012.

How Biden Became a Nationalist by Necessity

Analysis

January 19, 2022, 5:00 AM

Barack Obama and Joe Biden speak before signing the 21st Century Cures Act.

Obama’s Democracy Forum Was Better Than Biden’s

Analysis

December 23, 2021, 10:51 AM

Migrants sit by a fire near the Belarusian-Polish border.

Even Sweden Doesn’t Want Migrants Anymore

Analysis

November 17, 2021, 6:28 AM

U.S. President Joe Biden meets with his national security team.

Is Joe Biden Missing a Team of Rivals?

Analysis

September 22, 2021, 3:23 PM

Then-U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden listens to a story.

The Meaning of Biden’s ‘America First’ Doctrine

Argument

September 7, 2021, 4:10 PM

U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan

The United States Keeps Doing What It Can’t

Argument

August 20, 2021, 1:40 PM

Presidential nominee Joe Biden wears voting sticker.

What Biden Really Thinks About Democracy Promotion

Argument

July 31, 2021, 5:56 AM

U.S. voters cast their ballots.

The World’s Oldest Democracy Is One of Its Worst

Argument

July 6, 2021, 3:58 PM

Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with European Union President Donald Tusk on February 6, 2015 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels.

Biden Is Everything Europe Asked For

Argument

June 10, 2021, 11:28 AM

A man wearing a patriotic suit and Donald Trump themed tie joins supporters queueing before President Donald Trump holds a rally on Oct. 26, 2020 in Lititz, Pennsylvania.

Biden Is Going Protectionist. Republicans Are Going Off the Deep End.

Argument

June 1, 2021, 3:59 PM

Joe Biden waves alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas prior to their meeting on March 10, 2010 in Ramallah, West Bank.

What Biden Is—and Isn’t—Willing to Do for Palestinians

Voice

May 14, 2021, 7:36 AM

Joe Biden waves to supporters before meeting with local labor leaders ahead at the union's state headquarters on Sept. 7, 2020 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

America Is Becoming a Social Democracy

Voice

May 7, 2021, 5:35 AM

Joe Biden, flanked by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas (R), meets virtually with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White House in Washington on March 1, 2021.

Biden’s Immigration Plan Exists on Paper, Not in Reality

Voice

April 26, 2021, 4:17 PM

Angela Merkel (L) speaks with Joe Biden at the start of their meeting at the Chancellery on Feb. 1, 2013 in in Berlin.

Biden’s Refugee Policy Is a Profile in Cowardice

Voice

April 17, 2021, 7:19 AM

Joe Biden disembarks at a campaign stop in Ohio.

Biden’s ‘Foreign Policy for the Middle Class’ Is a Revolution

Voice

March 17, 2021, 8:53 AM

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