The gang that can’t negotiate straight
President Trump speaks before signing proclamations on March 8 that would impose a 25 percent...
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Author: Daniel W. Drezner
Why you will always be disappointed with Trump’s foreign policy team
President Trump sits with his delegation, including national security adviser H.R. McMaster, third...
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The foreign policy of ‘Black Panther’
Chadwick Boseman in a scene from Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther.” (Matt...
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The foreign policy questions that President Trump does not understand
President Trump talks with White House communications director Hope Hicks during an event at the...
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The state of the union is weird
What if the American public, not President Trump, defined the State of the Union address? The...
Read MoreDonald Trump cannot stop endorsing losers
During a rally in Pensacola, Fla., on Dec. 8, President Trump told Alabamians to “get out and vote for Roy Moore,” the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama. (The Washington Post) President Trump did not have...
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What makes people nostalgic for a past worse than the present?
Elizabeth Omilami, daughter of Hosea Williams, speaks before President Obama delivers a speech...
Read MoreDonald Trump will not be draining any swamps as president
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign event at the airport in Kinston, N.C., on Oct. 26. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Since Donald Trump won the 44th greatest landslide in American presidential history, the...
Read MoreWill Donald Trump be the actual decider in his administration’s foreign policy? This one trick will tell you!
Cars pass by a billboard showing President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin placed by members of the pro-Serbian movement in the town of Danilovgrad on Nov. 16. (Savo Prelevic/Agence France-Presse via...
Read MoreTrump likes to be ‘unpredictable.’ That won’t work so well in diplomacy.
President-elect Donald Trump greets a crowd in the lobby of the New York Times on Tuesday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Once when I was serving in the federal government, in the early 2000s, the Treasury Department was...
Read MoreWATCH: The three times Donald Trump demonstrated he was unfit for the presidency in last night’s debate
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton waves to the audience as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump puts his notes away after the third presidential debate in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/John...
Read MoreWhy Hillary Clinton’s perceived corruption seems to echo louder than Donald Trump’s actual corruption.
Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Over the Labor Day weekend, there was quite the chatter comparing and contrasting the news media coverage of Hillary Clinton’s alleged improprieties involving the Clinton Foundation and...
Read MoreWhat is the core dilemma of U.S. immigration policy?
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks about immigration and refugees during an Aug. 10 campaign event in Sunrise, Fla. (CRISTOBAL HERRERA/European Pressphoto Agency) The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts is...
Read MoreDonald Trump and Hillary Clinton have very different relationships with the truth.
This combination of file photos shows Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton(L)on June 15, 2016 and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on June 13, 2016. AFP/Getty Images The latest polls from...
Read MoreThe year of democratic decay
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during the second session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 19. (John Locher/AP) The failed coup attempt in Turkey has been disturbing to watch for a number of...
Read MoreBarack Obama has made America great again
President Obama with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, center, and Mexican President Enrique Pena Neito, waves in front of Parliament Hill during the North America Leaders’ Summit on June 29 in Ottawa. (Pablo Martinez...
Read MoreA year ago, I wrote the dumbest column I will ever write. You won’t believe what happened next.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Southside Ballroom in Dallas, Texas on June 16, 2016. LAURA BUCKMAN/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump announced his campaign for president on June 16, 2015, and he’s...
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