List of Leaders articles
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Former U.S. diplomat Nicholas Burns testifies before the Senate. Pompeo’s Silence Creates a ‘Crisis of Morale’ at State Department
“The rank and file are very disturbed by the inability, the refusal, of the secretary of state to defend his own people,” says former diplomat Nicholas Burns.
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Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, and his associate Lev Parnas arrive for the funeral of late U.S. President George H.W. Bush in Washington on Dec. 5, 2018. Is Lev Parnas a Reliable Impeachment Witness?
New evidence from a key player sheds more light on Trump’s role in pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political rival.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Mishustin ‘Russia’s Political Transition Has Arrived Ahead of Schedule’
The entire Russian government has resigned as Putin charts his country’s political future—one that will certainly still include a leading role for him.
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Lev Parnas Giuliani Associates May Have Surveilled U.S. Ambassador, New Evidence Shows
The latest batch of House evidence before Trump’s impeachment trial begins includes explosive evidence linking the president’s lawyer and associates to the campaign to bully Ukraine to investigate Trump’s rivals.
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Technicians work at the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor in Iran on Dec. 23, 2019. The Iran Deal Is Not Dead Yet, but It’s Getting There
Europe’s decision to start the dispute settlement process may set the clock ticking on the deal’s ultimate demise.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Nervous U.S. Allies Brace for Iran Fallout
Gulf and European countries are eyeing Trump with trepidation as they fear more reprisals from Iran.
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Protesters demonstrate against Trump’s Iran policy outside the White House on Jan. 7. Praise for the Suleimani Strike Isn’t Based in Reality
The ideological architects of one of the United States’ most disastrous foreign-policy decisions—the 2003 invasion of Iraq—are spinning a tale to support Trump’s most dangerous move to date.
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Demonstrators marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown confront police during a protest along West Florissant Street in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 11, 2015. The Global Policeman Will Always Shoot People
Suleimani’s killing shows U.S. police and military power can’t be separated.
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U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement on Iran at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Jan. 3. Trump Team Sends Muddled Message on Iran
National security officials backed away from the president’s claim that Iran was preparing to attack four U.S. embassies.
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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office of the White House on May 10, 2017. Why Is the United States So Bad at Foreign Policy?
It’s not just Trump. Washington hasn’t had a coherent strategy for decades.
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U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the situation with Iran in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington on Jan. 8. Assassination, Extrajudicial Execution, or Targeted Killing—What’s the Difference?
Successive presidents have tried to shape new terminology for political killings. But they’re still mostly illegal.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif speaks at an international conference. Who’s Afraid of Mohammad Javad Zarif?
The United States killed Qassem Suleimani. Why can’t it silence his defenders?
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Is Preemptive Assassination the New Trump Doctrine?
Many thought the United States got beyond this immoral and illegal approach after the disaster of the Iraq War. Apparently not.
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U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, then-head of U.S. Central Command, testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 27, 2018. ‘We Will Have to Wait and See if Iran Is Done’
Former Centcom commander says the United States would be mistaken to take Iran’s word that it does not seek escalation.
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A World Trade Organization sign is seen at WTO headquarters in Geneva on Sept. 21, 2018. Trump’s Real Trade War Is Being Waged on the WTO
By undermining the organization’s dispute resolution body, the administration is undoing decades of rules-based economic cooperation—to the United States’ own peril.
