Shadow Gov’t

Trump Has Reshaped Presidential Rhetoric Into an Unrecognizable Grotesque

By Carlyn Reichel
July 7, 2017 - 6:15 pm

In Poland, the president had all the facts and stories and history right, but drew all the wrong lessons.

Donald Trump Has Made America a Back-Row Kid

By Derek Chollet, Julie Smith
July 7, 2017 - 8:00 am

The days of other countries looking to the United States for leadership are coming to an end.

Trump Should Urge Europe to Resist Putin’s Pipeline Politics

By Jim Townsend, Azita Raji
July 7, 2017 - 7:47 am

If Trump really means “America first,” he needs to raise the pipeline issue.

‘No Specific Agenda’ Means Trump Will Get Played by Putin, Again

By Julie Smith
July 5, 2017 - 3:22 pm

By not planning in advance, the president is giving up a diplomatic opportunity to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time.

What to Expect From Trump’s Europe Trip

By Derek Chollet
July 5, 2017 - 2:58 pm

A president usually never gets a second chance to make a first impression, but President Donald Trump intends to test that proposition over the next few days in Europe.

The United States Can’t Go It Alone In Venezuela

By David McKean, Michael J. Camilleri
June 30, 2017 - 4:24 pm

Woody Allen famously said “showing up is 80 percent of life.” The same might be said for diplomacy, but last week Secretary of State Rex Tillerson decided to skip the annual meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Cancun, Mexico, dispatching his deputy instead. At the meeting, the United States and like-minded nations ...