Elephants in the Room

Obscured by chaos and dysfunction, the White House is pursuing approaches that are better than they seem.

Legislators must reinsert themselves into the trade policymaking process.

Trump should not waste his opportunity to begin repairing Wahhabism’s trail of wreckage.

It is hard for the country to move West with Russia on its back.

Here’s how.

The war is not yet over and its outcome is not yet certain.

Selling more goods is not enough. Trump’s trade agreement with Beijing must include real structural reforms.

Trump is mulling new auto tariffs that could send the global economy into a tailspin.

The outcome of the vote is not nearly as important as the quality of the electoral process.

Like it or not, Washington’s ties with Riyadh still matter.

Austria’s young chancellor has become a major player in Europe. The White House has taken notice.

In resisting the temptation to make a bad deal, he avoided failure at the Hanoi summit.

A freeze-for-freeze deal is exactly what the administration once swore it would not accept.

Thoughtful U.S. policies could help restore Venezuela’s democracy.

His successes and failures defy simplistic, partisan assessment.

In grading him, we must adjust for the difficulty of the assignment.

Diplomacy is working—for now.

The U.S. secretary of defense was right to resign in protest, but Trump can’t handle the consequences.

The tribalism infecting U.S. domestic politics has unfortunately crept deep into the foreign-policy discourse.

A crackdown is long overdue.